Hi,

I've defined 3 panels in a status bar. For each panel I have set their widths, yet at runtime they all seem "auto-sized" and shrink, then end up being squashed on the left of the status bar.

eg:

+-----------------------------------------+
| str1 | str2 | str3 |
+-----------------------------------------+

What I want (by setting the widths of each panel) is the following:

+-----------------------------------------+
| str1 | str2 | str3 |
+-----------------------------------------+

It seems LCL simply ignores the fact that I set panel widths. How do I fix the panel layout in LCL?

ps:
I don't actually want text in the 3rd panel, I want to draw a image. The image must always appear on the right edge of the statusbar.

Regards,
- Graeme -

I cannot reproduce that on Windows (Lazarus 1.5 r48507 FPC 2.6.4 i386-win32-win32/win64), and AFAIK this has worked as expected for a long time.

See attached image.
Panel widths are set to 50, 100, 150 and default (50) for last one.

Bart
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Widgetset ?

zeljko

zeljko wrote

Widgetset ?

LCL-GTK2.

But it needs to work with LCL-Win32/64 as well, but I haven't tested this app under Windows yet.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

It seems LCL simply ignores the fact that I set panel widths. How do I fix the panel layout in LCL?

I just tested under Delphi 7 and Delphi XE - in both cases if I set a StatusBar panel width, the program adheres to my settings. So this seems broken in LCL.

I'm using Lazarus 1.3 r45395 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2, and not the latest Trunk because too many things have gone broken (usability wise) in Lazarus since then. But if I really must, I guess I can move my development back to the latest Trunk code.

Regards,
- Graeme -

This one annoys me as well but is a documented issue in the wiki

see
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_known_issues_%28things_that_will_never_be_fixed%29#TStatusBar_Panels_2

"The TStatusPanel.Bevel and TStatusPanel.Alignment properties are ignored by all platforms except Windows."

Tony Whyman wrote

see http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_known_issues_%28things_that_will_never_be_fixed%29#TStatusBar_Panels_2

Ah crap - and then people still wonder why I rather develop with fpGUI instead of LCL. Thanks for the info though.

And sadly, based on the link included in that wiki text, I reported the issue back in Jan 2010. :-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

That's wrong. Qt can align text of panels, but also it can have bevel :) Only, I'm not sure if I implemented that :)

zeljko

Bart wrote

I cannot reproduce that on Windows (Lazarus 1.5 r48507 FPC 2.6.4 i386-win32-win32/win64), and AFAIK this has worked as expected for a long time.

Yes, but that obviously doesn't mean it works everywhere else. Later in the day I tested under Windows too, and like you said it works on that LCL widgetset. So it seems like another LCL-GTK2 issue (inconsistency). I don't have Qt setup, so can't test the LCL-QT widgetset.

Is there any LCL test suite that can check for these things [inconsistencies] between widgetsets? If not, something should really be put in place, otherwise the Lazarus team have no way of gauging what works and what doesn't on each LCL target.

Regards,
- Graeme -