Hi,

I've finally been able to upgrade my lazarus so I could enjoy the new functionalities in the package manager/project manager and the messages dialog.

In general, the new functionalities are a real joy to work with, kudos to the lazarus team...

Some annoyances I noticed which can probably be improved (I'm using GTK2 version of lazarus):

- When I right-click a message in the message dialog, the pop-up menu displays the possibilities for the selected item, not the item I just right-clicked. I suspect this is a matter of letting right-click also select the clicked message.

Currently I need first to click on the message to make it active, and then right-click to get the pop-up.

- The 'Stay on top' option of the messages window is nice, but is cumbersome.

Without the option, clicking the message means that the source window will cover the messages window (precious little screen real-estate), making it hard to do the right-click to get the menu-item which I really want (Usually "remove unused variable").

With the option enabled, it really stays on top, also of other (non-lazarus) windows
- forcing me to switch it off before I can continue to work.

Currently, the way of working is: Enable 'Stay on top', fix lots of warnings/hints, Disable "Stay on top", recompile all, and repeat.

Suggestions to improve this would be most welcome...

- The compiler reports unused units, variables, constants. There is a "Remove unused variable", idem for units in uses clauses, but no "Remove unused constant". An oversight, I presume ?

- An option 'Remove all unused items in this unit' would be really great...

- When I select multiple files in the project editor (using ctrl-click), and then want to drag them to a package, then it deselects the clicked one if I use ctrl to perform the drag, and selects only the clicked one if I don't use the ctrl. This kind of defeats the multi-select :(

- When I move a unit to a package, then it happened that the IDE told me that this action will break the uses clause of some units. All correct, and this is really neat ! The action to take was to add the target package to the source (project, in this case).

So, an additional button in this dialog would be 'Add target package as dependency to source'. (or something shorter)

Anyway, great job on the new functionalities !!

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

I'm using GTK2 version of lazarus

This is not directly related to your other comments but there are good news for GTK2 users.
The issue #20202 from 2011 got finally solved.
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20202

You can now safely use the TurboPowerIProDsgn package and get nice formatted hint and info windows.
I will configure it to be installed automatically once I find a way to do it.

The problem was not directly in LCL-GTK2 but for some reason it was mostly triggered there.
I have used the GTK2 IDE with iPro installed now ~10 hours and no crashes so far!

Juha

Juha Manninen wrote

The issue #20202 from 2011 got finally solved. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20202

Fantastic! Thank you so much Juha.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Fantastic! Thank you so much Juha.

Thanks for the feedback Graeme.
People may have looked at wrong places because the crash happened mostly (or only) with GTK2.
I am still not 100% sure of the reasons.
Now the hint control is created once and reused, and is freed by its owner which is the right way to go. Why it crashed only with the iPro HTML panel but not with the default memo control, I don't know.

Juha
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It now selects on right click.

Mattias

Have you tried to enable Options / Messages Windows / Jump from messages to source line on double click?

Mattias

[...] - When I select multiple files in the project editor (using ctrl-click), and then want to drag them to a package, then it deselects the clicked one if I use ctrl to perform the drag,

The multi selection is currently done in TTreeView.MouseDown. Maybe it should be done in MouseUp.

Why do you use Ctrl to drag?

and selects only the clicked one if I don't use the ctrl. This kind of defeats the multi-select :(

Mattias

I think so.

Why do you use Ctrl to drag?

To keep the multi-selection active.
If I don't use the CTRL, it selects the current one on click.

Michael.

Now I have, and discovered the 'Focus on compile' option as well, which is super!

thanks !!

Michael.

Great job !

Michael.

Here it works like this:
Multi select some files using shift or ctrl.
Left mousedown on one of the selected items (no shift, no ctrl), drag, mouse up.

Mattias

Nope. Here, on left mousedown the multiselect is killed :(

Todays' Lazarus, GTK2 widgetset.

Michael.

Il 15/07/2014 13:35, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:

Just a wild guess. Are you sure that your mouse works properly? I've already thrown away a number of mice (mainly Microsoft's, but maybe it's a coincidence), which had started generating two clicks instead of just one. If the second click has the same effect of the first you don't notice, but in this case it can make the difference.

FWIW,

Giuliano

Tried with 3 different mouses (1 trackball, one regular, one mouse pad on laptop).

Same behaviour....

Michael.

[...] Nope. Here, on left mousedown the multiselect is killed :( Todays' Lazarus, GTK2 widgetset.

You are right. Something changed during my vacation.

Mattias

Fixed.

Mattias