Hi Lazarus users, developers and all,
This is a fairly minor bug report (email to the Lazarus discussion list) about the appearance of the compiler status window -- which shows on the screen (optionally) when compiling a project. It *should* be (hopefully) fairly trivial to correct these problems (see below) -- however, someone needs to point it out and discuss it first. ;-))) [ I'm not aware whether or not this has been discussed here previously. ]
Please refer to the 2 x attachments which are cropped screenshots of my Linux Mandriva 2010.0 system running Lazarus 0.9.28.2 beta, 2009-12-03, FPC 2.2.4, SVN 22279, i386-linux-gtk 2 (beta).
Attachments are:
(a) Screenshot_lazarus_compiling_window_normal_text_size.png (size 15K) (b) screenshot_lazarus_compiling_window_large_text_size.png (size 21K)
File (a) shows a normal compiler status window (optionally displayed) with screen text (display fonts) set to 'normal' size. I am pretty *happy* with the appearance of this. However, I would prefer that when the window is resized then closed -- on next compilation I would like the window to open at the SAME SIZE as previously resized to. This is because I often want to make the window wider to display the filename(s) with path UNCROPPED.
File (b) shows a normal compiler status window (optionally displayed) with screen text (display fonts) set to 'large' size. { e.g. this is the equivalent of setting display to Large Fonts on a Micro$oft Windows system -- however, in this case I'm using a Linux Mandriva 2010.0 desktop system }.
The main problem is with case (b). e.g. Screen text set to large (fonts) size. Note: View file (b) [ it's just a PNG graphic ] to see what I'm talking about. Note that with the 'Lines' counter and the Hints, Notes, Warnings and Errors counters ... the text in the frames all has the bottom of the text cropped and not visible. Also the Warnings count (shown as a green zero) overlaps the 'Warnings:' text label. Resizing this windows DOES NOT FIX THESE PROBLEMS!
In both cases: (a) & (b) I would like Lazarus to remember the size of this window; such that after it is closed and another compilation is done and the window is again displayed that the window be display at the LAST SIZE IT WAS RESIZED TO.
I look forward to feedback about this. ;-) Also, it'd like to hear from M$ Windows and Mac (etc) users to know whether you have this problem also. As I'm not a Windows or Mac user, so I have no way of knowing how Lazarus displays on your systems. ;-)
PEW
Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
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