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Using the Lazarus IDE => Options => Topic started by: carl_caulkett on July 07, 2017, 09:24:13 am

Title: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: carl_caulkett on July 07, 2017, 09:24:13 am

Lazarus 1.8 RC3
macOS 10.12.5

Hello, I've just updated to 1.8 RC3 and in doing so, I have lost the single windowed IDE that I had set up. I've tried to reinstate it by installing the XML files from https://github.com/FlKo/LazarusDockedDesktops but it doesn't look the same as I had it before, which makes me think that I must have used some other design time package to achieve the single window, but I just cannot for the life of me remember which package that might have been. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery?

Thanks,
Carl

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: Thaddy on July 07, 2017, 09:37:07 am

Install the AnchorDockingDesign package and rebuild lazarus from the IDE. (or after you've done that make useride if you are short on resources)

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: carl_caulkett on July 07, 2017, 10:03:53 am

I've got AnchorDockingDesign installed, but the IDE definitely looks different. For example, the horizontal component palette is visible and cannot be permanently disabled. If I disable it in options, then it reappears next time I start Lazarus. I had a really good IDE layout before - I know this is only a release candidate but why do developers insist on making unnecessary changes which then break things?

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: wp on July 07, 2017, 10:48:31 am

If you want this to be fixed in the release version you should definitely write a bugtracker report, some developers don't read the forum regularly.

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: carl_caulkett on July 07, 2017, 01:30:02 pm

Done. https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32121

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: Ondrej Pokorny on July 08, 2017, 02:33:16 pm

Quote from: carl_caulkett on July 07, 2017, 10:03:53 am

If I disable it in options, then it reappears next time I start Lazarus.

You need to save your desktop: http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Desktops (http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Desktops)

Title: Re: Problems with single window IDE after Lazarus 1.8 RC3 update
Post by: carl_caulkett on July 08, 2017, 03:19:35 pm

Doh! I should have thought of that. Thanks, Ondrej  :-[