Embedded designer

[balazsszekely]

Since Sparta is no longer functional/maintained, we decided to backport CT's excellent form designer(r.62735). You can test it with Lazarus trunk:
1. Svn update/git pull
2. Recompile package ideintf($(Lazarus)/components/ideintf/ideintf.lpk)
3. Rebuild IDE
4. Go to Tools->Options->Environment->Embedded designer and check "Enable embedded desinger"

Important:
Please avoid any drama in this thread, if you have issues with CT, take it somewhere else. This thread is about the designer and nothing else.

[Thaddy]

@GetMem and in general:
You may have issues with po files, so do a clean check out.
(I ran into this today)
A clean check out builds and works.

[balazsszekely]

@Thaddy

You may have issues with po files, so do a clean check out.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I never commit po files. I have nothing to do with translations.

[Thaddy]

It is merely a warning for side effects. The improvement is appreciated.

[Otto]

@GetMem

Hello.
You did a great job.

I tested the package and it seems to work very well. Coming up I will do more tests with more complex projects. I tried to enable it and disable it and it behaved correctly.
I hope it is adopted in the next version of Lazzarus, I think it is very useful for projects that use many forms.

However, I did not understand what CT is and the drama related to it.

[Pascal]

Looks great and seems to work. Just the size of the scrollbars are a bit wired. They seem to show the remainig space from the top left of the windows to the bottom right of the screen.

[Pascal]

Some forms did not get recognized. If i press F12 the form gets opened. Another F12 then doesn't bring back the source.

[balazsszekely]

@Otto

You did a great job.

Thanks, but I only did the backport. It wouldn't be fair to take credit for other peoples work.

I tested the package and it seems to work very well. Coming up I will do more tests with more complex projects. I tried to enable it and disable it and it behaved correctly.

I'm glad you like it. Thanks for testing.

However, I did not understand what CT is and the drama related to it.

In this particular case ignorance is bliss. Believe me you lose nothing. If still interested you can do a forum search.

[af0815]

Looks nice on Lazarus 2.1.0 r62735M FPC 3.3.1 i386-win32-win32/win64

BTW: I have removed Sparta package first.

PS: F12 works for me (tested with a simple design) in both directions

[balazsszekely]

@Pascal

Looks great and seems to work. Just the size of the scrollbars are a bit wired. They seem to show the remainig space from the top left of the windows to the bottom right of the screen.

I noticed the scrollbar too. It can be fixed later. For now we wish to see how stable it is with different widget sets, Laz/FPC versions.

Some forms did not get recognized. If i press F12 the form gets opened. Another F12 then doesn't bring back the source.

Here we go . Lazarus/ FPC version please. Are you using custom forms?

[Pascal]

PS: F12 works for me (tested with a simple design) in both directions

The F12 issue only happens on unrecognized forms.

[balazsszekely]

@af0815

Looks nice on Lazarus 2.1.0 r62735M FPC 3.3.1 i386-win32-win32/win64

BTW: I have removed Sparta package first.

PS: F12 works for me (tested with a simple design) in both directions

Thanks for testing. It worked for me too with win32/64, qt and gtk2. Others tested with qt5 and also worked fine.

[Pascal]

Here we go . Lazarus/ FPC version please. Are you using custom forms?

See signature. Both latest trunk. No custom forms.

[af0815]

THX specially to the contributors (rotfl)

SCNR


@Pascal: I see no signature

[MacWomble]

Great Work!

I like this Designer