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"Show compile dialog" location

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Last night I was looking for the "Show compile dialog" checkbox to disable it. It took me a good few minutes to find. Eventually I found it, but definitely not in a obvious location or where I would have thought of looking first.

Why is "Show compile dialog" located in the "Environment > Files" screen and not the "Environment > Window" screen? After all, it is a window we are talking about and has nothing to do with "files".

See attached image to see what I am talking about. I'm using Lazarus 0.9.2 (trunk).

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Jürgen Hestermann
to Graeme Geldenhuys
Last night I was looking for the "Show compile dialog" checkbox to disable it. It took me a good few minutes to find. Eventually I found it, but definitely not in a obvious location or where I would have thought of looking first.

Strange! I also did the same yesterday and it also took me a lot of time to find it. I knew it was there (because I stepped through all settings a while ago) but couldn't find it immediately.

Why is "Show compile dialog" located in the "Environment > Files" screen and not the "Environment > Window" screen? After all, it is a window we are talking about and has nothing to do with "files".

Yes, it's not ideal too but much better than "Environment > Files".

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zeljko
to Jürgen Hestermann
J?rgen Hestermann wrote 5 lines
> Why is "Show compile dialog" located in the "Environment > Files" screen > and not the "Environment > Window" screen? After all, it is a window we > are talking about and has nothing to do with "files". Yes, it's not ideal too but much better than "Environment > Files".

Maybe "Compiler options" (last tab -> "Compilation") is best place for such option.

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Paul Ishenin
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zeljko wrote 13 lines
On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:20, J?rgen Hestermann wrote: >> Why is "Show compile dialog" located in the "Environment > Files" screen >> and not the "Environment > Window" screen? After all, it is a window we >> are talking about and has nothing to do with "files". >> > Yes, it's not ideal too but much better than "Environment > Files". > Maybe "Compiler options" (last tab -> "Compilation") is best place for such option.

No. Compiler options are options for paticular project. They will be merged with project options dialog once.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

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Marc Weustink
to Paul Ishenin
Paul Ishenin wrote 17 lines
zeljko wrote: > On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:20, J?rgen Hestermann wrote: > > >>> Why is "Show compile dialog" located in the "Environment > Files" >>> screen >>> and not the "Environment > Window" screen? After all, it is a window we >>> are talking about and has nothing to do with "files". >>> >> Yes, it's not ideal too but much better than "Environment > Files". >> > > Maybe "Compiler options" (last tab -> "Compilation") is best place for > such option. > No. Compiler options are options for paticular project. They will be merged with project options dialog once.

Global (or default) compiler options ?
There are some of them which would be nice if I didn't have to set them on each project. (I guess there are more ppl)

Marc

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Paul Ishenin
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Marc Weustink wrote 6 lines
> No. Compiler options are options for paticular project. They will be > merged with project options dialog once. Global (or default) compiler options ? There are some of them which would be nice if I didn't have to set them on each project. (I guess there are more ppl)

Ofcource an option to rewrite default project settings (which was discussed in the neighbour thread) will be a nice feature.

But at moment project and compiler options are options of one project. All global options are placed in the IDE options dialog.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to zeljko: Maybe "Compiler options" (last tab -> "Compilation") is best place for such option.
zeljko wrote
Maybe "Compiler options" (last tab -> "Compilation") is best place for such option.

No, because that is settings specific to a single project. The "show compile dialog" is a global option, so must go into the Environment dialog - somewhere.

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Marc Weustink: Global (or default) compiler options ? There are some of them which would be nice if I…
Marc Weustink wrote
There are some of them which would be nice if I didn't have to set them on each project. (I guess there are more ppl)

I am one of those people, hence my question regarding "new project default" from yesterday.

Butt he "show compile dialog" is something that fits better as an Environment option - global to the whole IDE.

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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