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Annoyance with 1.8RC5

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Donald Ziesig

Hi All!

I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one change. Maybe its a configuration item that I can't find, but I would really like to turn off 'Always on Top' for the Object Inspector, Messages, Call Stack and other IDE forms.

I've been using Delphi since version 1 and got used to being able to click on an IDE form to bring it to the front. Now I have to slide it out of the way or minimize it (if possible) to get access to other forms or the running application.

What can I do about this?

Thanks,

Don

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Donald Ziesig
to Ondrej Pokorny
Ondrej Pokorny wrote 9 lines
On 15.10.2017 17:05, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > What can I do about this? Find the revision that broke it and fill a bug report. And please give information about your OS and WS. I assume you are on Linux/Gtk2. Ondrej

ok I'll try

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kapibara
to Donald Ziesig: Hi All! I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one change. Maybe…

I agree with Don, Object Inspector "always on top" is in the way for other forms. Actually, this issue came up a year ago and was resolved. Now popped up again.

@Don did you find and report the revision that reintroduced this behaviour?

Donald Ziesig wrote 18 lines
Hi All! I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one change.  Maybe its a configuration item that I can't find, but I would really like to turn off 'Always on Top' for the Object Inspector, Messages, Call Stack and other IDE forms. I've been using Delphi since version 1 and got used to being able to click on an IDE form to bring it to the front.  Now I have to slide it out of the way or minimize it (if possible) to get access to other forms or the running application. What can I do about this? Thanks, Don

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Donald Ziesig
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kapibara wrote 7 lines
I agree with Don, Object Inspector "always on top" is in the way for other forms. Actually, this issue came up a year ago and was resolved. Now popped up again. @Don did you find and report the revision that reintroduced this behaviour?

I found that it appeared (in the source) going from RC4 to RC5.  I dropped back to RC4 so I can get some work done;-). I tried to find the exact units involved but I couldn't find them.

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On 10/15/2017 05:05 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > Hi All! > > I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one > change.  Maybe its a configuration item that I can't find, but I > would really like to turn off 'Always on Top' for the Object > Inspector, Messages, Call Stack and other IDE forms. > > I've been using Delphi since version 1 and got used to being able to > click on an IDE form to bring it to the front.  Now I have to slide > it out of the way or minimize it (if possible) to get access to other > forms or the running application. > > What can I do about this? > > Thanks, > > Don >

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to kapibara: I agree with Don, Object Inspector "always on top" is in the way for other forms.…
kapibara wrote 27 lines
I agree with Don, Object Inspector "always on top" is in the way for other forms. Actually, this issue came up a year ago and was resolved. Now popped up again. @Don did you find and report the revision that reintroduced this behaviour? On 10/15/2017 05:05 PM, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote: > Hi All! > > I have been using RC5 for a couple of days and am annoyed by one > change.  Maybe its a configuration item that I can't find, but I would > really like to turn off 'Always on Top' for the Object Inspector, > Messages, Call Stack and other IDE forms. > > I've been using Delphi since version 1 and got used to being able to > click on an IDE form to bring it to the front.  Now I have to slide it > out of the way or minimize it (if possible) to get access to other > forms or the running application. > > What can I do about this? > > Thanks, > > Don >

I think this is:

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13051

There is a patch there that fixes the problem.

Colin

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