Finally somebody has implemented a non-visual component tray add-on (sitting next to your visual designed form). Something I've been saying for years - and that should come standard with Delphi and Lazarus.

https://github.com/lynatan/ComponentTray

Non-visual components don't belong on the designer form itself.

Regards,
Graeme

2016-11-28 11:01 GMT+01:00 Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus <

: Non-visual components don't belong on the designer form itself.

It is simple to do with Sparta docked solution.

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Finally somebody has implemented a non-visual component tray add-on (sitting next to your visual designed form).

Good that it's a Lazarus solution!

Something I've been saying for years - and that should come standard with Delphi and Lazarus.

Patches are welcome.

Ondrej

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

Good that it's a Lazarus solution!

Sorry, I should have mentioned the link is a Delphi add-on.

The point of my post was to show the good idea, and to inspire somebody to implement it for Lazarus. I don't use VCL or LCL for years now, so there is no benefit for me any more.

Regards,
Graeme

Should be simple to do with a non docked IDE as well. For example as floating window.
And when it works as floating window it will work with anchordocking too.
And then it should be a small step to use it in Sparta docked designer.

Mattias

2016-11-28 12:36 GMT+01:00 Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus <

Might be :).

Note: as start point to hide in designer non-visual components could be used (introduced by Sparta) IDEComponentsMaster located in ComponentEditors (ideintf).