When I want to add a graphic element like TFileNameEdit which I have already used in other programs in the form editor I don't know how to find it in the menu. I am clicking on each tab one after the other then hovering over each element to see whether it is what I am searching for.
This is more than awkward and maybe I am overlooking something. But if that's the only way to find graphic elements it needs improvement I think. I know the name of the element I want to use (I can look in the code) but the icons don't tell me anything and many look very similar. A sorted list of all names would be much better to have. Or does this already exist?

Jürgen Hestermann wrote

When I want to add a graphic element like TFileNameEdit which I have already used in other programs in the form editor I don't know how to find it in the menu.

Although this is the fpc list you mention a LCL component and the form editor, so I presume you are using Lazarus.
Use View | Components (shortcut Ctrl Alt P), and type 'filen' in the filter edit.
It takes you straight there.

Howard

Thanks for the answer, Howard.
Yes, that's exactly what I was searching for.

I never care much about the different lists because for me they all serve the same purpose (programming in Pascal). But I try to be more careful with them the next time.

Howard Page-Clark wrote

Use View | Components (shortcut Ctrl Alt P), and type 'filen' in the filter edit.

Wow, and so we learn something new. :-)

Graeme Geldenhuys hat am 7. August 2012 um 16:48
geschrieben:> On 7 August 2012 13:20, Howard Page-Clark

> Use View | Components (shortcut Ctrl Alt P), and type 'filen' in the filter > edit. Wow, and so we learn something new. :-)

Maybe interesting:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_tricks#Component_palette

Mattias