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Michael A. Hess
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Ra�l Moratalla wrote 5 lines
In Delphi you have one window showed in the taskbar and in Lazarus (linux version) you can see a lot of windows showed in the taskbar. For my personal opinion I think that will be more comfortable see only one window in the taskbar

I doubt there is much that Lazarus can do about this. This is a function of the Window Manager. Any window that the Window Manager has open it indicates in the task bar. This is a feature of the Window Manager and will be the same in any application you care to mention.

You will notice this for dialog boxes and every type of window the Window Manager controls. I believe it is possible to do with Modal Dialog boxes but that might be about it.

Maybe someone else knows differently.

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Raúl Moratalla

Hi! I use Lazarus and I will find it more useful and comfortable if there was an only workspace with all the windows like in delphi. Will be possible it or do you prefer the style of the current environment with various windows?

Regards,

Raul

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Marc Weustink
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Ra�l Moratalla wrote 15 lines
El Domingo, 28 de Diciembre de 2003 17:33, Michael A. Hess escribi�: > I doubt there is much that Lazarus can do about this. This is a function > of the Window Manager. Any window that the Window Manager has open it > indicates in the task bar. This is a feature of the Window Manager and > will be the same in any application you care to mention. > > You will notice this for dialog boxes and every type of window the > Window Manager controls. I believe it is possible to do with Modal > Dialog boxes but that might be about it. > > Maybe someone else knows differently. The programmers of Hbasic have implemented it (various windows, only one in taskbar), but they are using Qt and C++, and I don't if it would be possible with Gtk and FPC.

As far as I can remeber it is a hint a window can give to the WM to not show a button in the taskbar. Don't know where I saw it.

Thats btw. almost the same as delphi it does. Only the Application window (0x0 pixels) is shown in the taskbar. All forms are not.

Another question: what is the current state of the Qt and Gtk2 interface? I'm a bit curious about it ;) A few weeks ago I tried to compile them, but I get an amount of errors.

The last time I ran gtk2 it worked (but that was a month or 2 ago or so)

Marc

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to Raúl Moratalla: Hi! I use Lazarus and I will find it more useful and comfortable if there was an only…
Ra?l Moratalla wrote
Hi! I use Lazarus and I will find it more useful and comfortable if there was an only workspace with all the windows like in delphi. Will be possible it or do you prefer the style of the current environment with various windows?

Ahem. There must be a misunderstanding. Delphi is also using a SDI interface, just like Lazarus ?

Or do you mean the windowlist shown in the taskbar ?

Michael.

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Raúl Moratalla
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El Domingo, 28 de Diciembre de 2003 17:33, Michael A. Hess escribi�:

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I doubt there is much that Lazarus can do about this. This is a function of the Window Manager. Any window that the Window Manager has open it indicates in the task bar. This is a feature of the Window Manager and will be the same in any application you care to mention. You will notice this for dialog boxes and every type of window the Window Manager controls. I believe it is possible to do with Modal Dialog boxes but that might be about it. Maybe someone else knows differently.

The programmers of Hbasic have implemented it (various windows, only one in taskbar), but they are using Qt and C++, and I don't if it would be possible with Gtk and FPC.

Another question: what is the current state of the Qt and Gtk2 interface? I'm a bit curious about it ;) A few weeks ago I tried to compile them, but I get an amount of errors.

Regards

Raul Moratalla

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Peter Vreman
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>In Delphi you have one window showed in the taskbar and in Lazarus (linux >version) you can see a lot of windows showed in the taskbar. For my > personal >opinion I think that will be more comfortable see only one window in the >taskbar > Not a bad idea to not show all the windows in the taskbar. gkrellm has that option. Should be possible.

That is upto the applet you are running. Here lazarus has only 1 button in the taskbar with a counter and all windows in a submenu.

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Ken Moffat
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Ra�l Moratalla wrote 6 lines
In Delphi you have one window showed in the taskbar and in Lazarus (linux version) you can see a lot of windows showed in the taskbar. For my personal opinion I think that will be more comfortable see only one window in the taskbar

Not a bad idea to not show all the windows in the taskbar. gkrellm has that option. Should be possible.

Ken

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James Mills
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Ra?l Moratalla wrote
Hi! I use Lazarus and I will find it more useful and comfortable if there was an only workspace with all the windows like in delphi. Will be possible it or do you prefer the style of the current environment with various windows?

I tend to agree, too many windows :) It needs to be managed.

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James

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Raúl Moratalla
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Well, I don't know if Delphi is using SDI or MDI, it seems to me that it's using MDI but I'm not sure and don't know it ;)
In Delphi you have one window showed in the taskbar and in Lazarus (linux version) you can see a lot of windows showed in the taskbar. For my personal opinion I think that will be more comfortable see only one window in the taskbar
I hope that I've explained it better :) and it's only a personal opinion.

Raul

El Domingo, 28 de Diciembre de 2003 18:02,
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Ra?l Moratalla wrote: > Hi! I use Lazarus and I will find it more useful and comfortable if there > was an only workspace with all the windows like in delphi. Will be > possible it or do you prefer the style of the current environment with > various windows? Ahem. There must be a misunderstanding. Delphi is also using a SDI interface, just like Lazarus ? Or do you mean the windowlist shown in the taskbar ? Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives

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Ra?l Moratalla wrote
Well, I don't know if Delphi is using SDI or MDI, it seems to me that it's using MDI but I'm not sure and don't know it ;)

Delphi uses SDI.

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In Delphi you have one window showed in the taskbar and in Lazarus (linux version) you can see a lot of windows showed in the taskbar. For my personal opinion I think that will be more comfortable see only one window in the taskbar I hope that I've explained it better :) and it's only a personal opinion.

It is clear now. Whether this can be fixed is another matter. e.g. Kylix also shows ALL open windows in the taskbar...

Michael.

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