TControlbar control is blank

[cov]

Hi,

After many years of not using Lazarus, I installed it today to write a small multimedia program.

I want to use the controls that I remember that shows the icons for 'play' 'stop' 'pause' 'rewind' and 'fastforward' but when I insert the control onto my form, the control is an empty blank rectangle.

Is there some issue with this control? What am I doing wrong?

Lazarus 2.0.6+dfsg-3 rDebian package 2.0.6+dfsg-3 FPC 3.0.4 x86_64-linux-gtk2

~Dave

[Blaazen]

TControlBar is cursed. It never worked perfectly and situation even worse now. 
Years ago, there were some troubles on windows but now it does not work neither on linux.
Use CoolBar.

[jamie]

The control is empty by default

you need to add what ever buttons you want to it, its not a predefined layout.

A TbuttonPanel does have predefined controls on it but most likely not what you want.

[Blaazen]

When I put TButton on TControlBar it seems OK. Button is on its band. But TSpeedBtn dissapears. Band is created but it is empty.
Otherwise I can move bands and drag them on a new row.

[jamie]

seems to be a problem with the TSpeedbutton because it works with TWinControl buttons just fine.

maybe we need a TWinSpeedButton

[cov]

Thanks all.

I thought it would be a nice shortcut.

It's been a while since I used Lazarus and I was wondering what I was doing wrong.