Hi,

Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed? Is it some docking window limitation?

My environmentoptions.xml file still lists all my previous Editor Toolbar items, but only a blank TPanel (I think) is displayed. No editor toolbar ,
Graeme

Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed? Is it some docking window limitation?

Not an issue for me:
anchor-docking-and-editor-toolbar.png
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leledumbo wrote

Not an issue for me:

Is your Lazarus IDE also compiled against LCL-GTK2? Also I have my Editor Tabs set to display on the right, not the top. I don't know if any of these might interfere with the Editor Toolbar + Anchor Docking.

Without Anchor Docking installed, the editor toolbar worked fine - even with my editor tabs on the right edge of the editor.

Regards,
Graeme

It only disappears when on the right?

I use LCL-GTK2 with Anchordocking and Editor Toolbar to the right, no problem.

Without Anchor Docking installed, the editor toolbar worked fine - even with my editor tabs on the right edge of the editor.

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

It only disappears when on the right?

Sorry if my message wasn't clear. Here is a screenshot of what I see, and below is the Editor Toolbar settings as seen in the environmentoptions.xml file.

<EditorToolBarOptions Version="1" Count="16">
<Button1 Name="Jump to Implementation"/>
<Button2 Name="IDEMainMenu/View/itmViewMainWindows/ViewToDoList"/> <Button3 Name="---------------"/>
<Button4 Name="Jump back"/>
<Button5 Name="Jump forward"/>
<Button6 Name="---------------"/>
<Button7 Name="Toggle view Breakpoints"/>
<Button8 Name="Toggle view Watches"/>
<Button9 Name="Toggle view Local Variables"/>
<Button10 Name="Toggle view Call Stack"/>
<Button11 Name="Toggle view Debugger Output"/>
<Button12 Name="---------------"/>
<Button13 Name="Compile project/program"/>
<Button14 Name="Build project/program"/>
<Button15 Name="Run parameters"/>
<Button16
Name="IDEMainMenu/Source/itmSourceTools/jcfJEDICodeFormat/jcfCurrentEditorWindow"/> </EditorToolBarOptions>

When I disable Anchor Docking, then the Editor Toolbar displays correctly. Enable Anchor Docking, and it looks like the attached screenshot.

As I mentioned, I'm using Lazarus 1.7 r52715 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 on a CentOS 6 Linux system.

Regards,
Graeme

Is your Lazarus IDE also compiled against LCL-GTK2? Also I have my Editor Tabs set to display on the right, not the top. I don't know if any of these might interfere with the Editor Toolbar + Anchor Docking.

Kinda ugly, but yes it works:
anchor-docking-and-editor-toolbar-gtk2.png
<http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/file/n4049584/anchor-docking-and-editor-toolbar-gtk2.png>

leledumbo wrote

Kinda ugly, but yes it works:

Thanks for confirming... Now I’m very confused as to why it doesn’t work here.

As for the “ugly” comment - yes, I don’t know why LCL-GTK2 tabs on the right must be so “fat” (vertical space). With fpGUI or MSEide pagecontrol widgets, I can fit almost 3× the amount of tabs in the vertical space taken up by what your screenshot shows.

I use tabs-on-the-right because I work with a lot of hate having to scroll to find a file I need. With vertical stacked tabs, I see all the open files in one go without any scrolling. It has its benefits. ;-)

Regards,
Graeme

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed? Is it some docking window limitation?

It is somewhat documented in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29863

All toolbars disappear once you install anchor docking package, so toolbars need to be re-enabled manually. That's one of the problems. The other one is more severe, i.e. "TWinControl.WMSize loop detected".

Denis

Denis Kozlov wrote

It is somewhat documented in: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29863

Umm... thanks for that.

It seems for every good feature in Lazarus IDE, there is an inevitable trade-off somewhere else. :-( All I wanted was a single tabbed window to collect all IDE debug windows in one place - the trade-off is I loose the useful Editor Toolbar. If I have some time over the weekend I'll see if I can debug the cause.

Regards,
Graeme

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed? Is it some docking window limitation?

Seems I found the problem. My environmentoptions.xml file now contains two "desktop" settings for some reason. Without Ancher Docking it used "desktop1", but with Anchor Docking it uses "desktop2". I assume when I installed Anchor Docking it created a second set of desktop settings - but never copied over my original Editor Toolbar settings.

Manually copying my Editor Toolbar configuration from desktop1 to desktop2 - now my IDE has docked windows and the editor toolbar I so like. :)

I presume this is a bug with Anchor Docking - not copying over certain settings to desktop2.

Regards,
Graeme

Even without copying. You should be able to show the toolbar and add buttons without editing the xml. I wonder, why it works here, but not for you.

Mattias

IMO this is a misunderstanding. As far as I see from Graeme's screenshots the toolbar is there and works but is empty. Graeme please see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29742 point 2, especially the "why" section.

So the only problem is that there is no default layout for AnchorDocking.

Ondrej

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

As far as I see from Graeme's screenshots the toolbar is there and works but is empty.

Correct, I could right-click on the empty Editor Toolbar and select "Configure". It worked, but I didn't want to do that in case it overwrote my existing Editor Toolbar configuration which I knew existed in environmentoptions.xml.

Up until now, I didn't even know Lazarus supports multiple desktop configurations. I just found it in the Tools menu.

Graeme please see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29742 point 2, especially the "why" section.

That is a very valid point. When I go to "Tools -> Options -> Environment" I would assume all setting under "Environment" apply to the whole IDE. Moving settings specific for a desktop layout in a new "Desktop" options would make more sense.

Regards,
Graeme

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

So the only problem is that there is no default layout for AnchorDocking.

Correct, and maybe default by copying the existing desktop settings (for Editor Toolbar) to the new desktop settings. If you only had one desktop to start with, that shouldn't be hard, but if you have multiple desktop layouts set up, I don't know how it would choose which one to copy settings from.

Regards,
Graeme

Well see your original message:

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Is it a known issue, or by design, that the Editor Toolbar doesn't appear when the Anchor Docking packages is installed?

Nevertheless let's discuss the necessarity of this particular Desktops feature in the "Desktops - some features overengineered (?)" thread.

Ondrej