I observed a strange behaviour of Lazarus when I had installed the package PlotPanel:
When I had made an application with PlotPanel and it worked perfectly. Then I opened another project to work on and lateron I reopened the first program. Now all components were invisible except the plotpanel component. When placing a new component f.i. a button on the form everything was visible again.
I used Plotpanel in Delphi without this problem for some time. So it should work on Lazarus. I saw this behaviour (invisible components that are still there, you can see the hints and handles of the components) in other situations like changing the class or cut and paste.
Is there anyone who can say something on this subject?