Sign in Join

Live chat for Free Pascal, Lazarus, Delphi and every Pascal programmer.

Mailing lists / lazarus / 2011-02

New Form default properties

4 messages · 2 people ·

Reply by email Subscribe to this list Your subscription

Read-only archive. Use j and k to move between messages.

Alexsander Rosa

Is there a place to define the "default" values for some Form properties when a "New Form" is created by IDE?
I know I could use inheritance, but it seems a little overkill when all I want is to define width and height properties.

Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa http://rednaxel.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20110211/01d79125/attachment.html>

Reply by email

Mattias Gaertner
to Alexsander Rosa
Is there a place to define the "default" values for some Form properties when a "New Form" is created by IDE? I know I could use inheritance, but it seems a little overkill when all I want is to define width and height properties.

You can define your own forms, use the project templates, use the inherited form or patch the IDE.
There is no "All I want to" thing.
Defining some default values for component classes is a nice feature, but if you ask ten developers you get ten different ideas how to do that. That's why such a feature is better provided by a package.

Mattias

Reply by email

Alexsander Rosa
to Mattias Gaertner

And what about the file *$HOME/.lazarus/environmentoptions.xml* ? According to unit *EnvironmentOpts* it can hold a "newformtemplate". Is this a not-yet-implemented feature? If it is, how could I help finish it?

procedure TMainIDE.mnuNewFormClicked(Sender: TObject);
Show quoted text 26 lines
var Category: TNewIDEItemCategory; Template: TNewIDEItemTemplate; Desc: TProjectFileDescriptor; Flags: TNewFlags; begin Category:=NewIDEItems.FindByName(FileDescGroupName); * Template:=Category.FindTemplateByName(EnvironmentOptions.NewFormTemplate); * if (Template is TNewItemProjectFile) and Template.VisibleInNewDialog then Desc:=TNewItemProjectFile(Template).Descriptor else Desc:=FileDescriptorForm; Flags:=[nfOpenInEditor,nfCreateDefaultSrc]; if (not Project1.IsVirtual) and EnvironmentOptions.AskForFilenameOnNewFile then Flags:=Flags+[nfAskForFilename,nfSave]; Desc.Owner:=Project1; try DoNewEditorFile(Desc,'','',Flags); finally Desc.Owner:=nil; end; end;

My .lazarus xml file does not have these tags.

2011/2/11 Mattias Gaertner

Show quoted text 24 lines
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:17:54 -0200 Alexsander Rosa wrote: > Is there a place to define the "default" values for some Form properties > when a "New Form" is created by IDE? > I know I could use inheritance, but it seems a little overkill when all I > want is to define width and height properties. You can define your own forms, use the project templates, use the inherited form or patch the IDE. There is no "All I want to" thing. Defining some default values for component classes is a nice feature, but if you ask ten developers you get ten different ideas how to do that. That's why such a feature is better provided by a package. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa http://rednaxel.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20110211/415168c2/attachment-0001.html>

Reply by email

Mattias Gaertner
to Alexsander Rosa
And what about the file *$HOME/.lazarus/environmentoptions.xml* ? According to unit *EnvironmentOpts* it can hold a "newformtemplate".

This variable defines what item to create when clicking on the speedbutton "New form".

Is this a not-yet-implemented feature?

As I wrote: Every programmer has his own idea how a form template should work. So, yes, it is a not implemented feature.

If it is, how could I help finish it?

Create a design time package and register your template. And if you think others might find it useful publish it, for example on lazarus-ccr. If other people find it useful and you can convince us that the package is maintained, it may be added to the Lazarus sources.

Mattias

Reply by email