litte bug DockedFormEditor
lazarus / 10-Designer

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mercurhyo · 2023-05-09 09:26

Hi all.

While using frames and Docked Designer, I noticed that :

1) create a new frame with controls.
2) embed the frame on a form

(the above stage works fine)

3) add an other control in your frame
4) go back to the form

this does not shows any change so the new control does not apear.
However if you compile and run then it works fine the control is there

afterwhat you close and restart Lazarus IDE, then the control is also
there.

So, I guess DockedForm Editor miss an update stage when working with
frames.

Give iit a try, Thank you

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mercurhyo · 2023-05-09 09:32

at 1st, I rewrote my code to align programmatically event properties
of the controls (OnChange, Onclick) because I was afraid that the
controls in the frame would not follow. and i want to work in a secure
env.

So.... please tell the DockedFormEditor developpers and see if they
can do something

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mercurhyo · 2023-05-09 09:55

oh I forgot

windows 10pro, Lazarus 2.2.6, FPK 3.2.2. I didn't try on linux yet

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af0815 · 2023-05-09 12:37

Frames in the IDE is a problem since Delphi times. There are some
known problems with this. This is the reason, i never use frames
placed in a form at designtime.
The refresh is one problem (close and reopen the project is working
without closing the whole IDE)
Another problem is, if you overwrite a eventhandler of the frame in
the form and delete afterwards the eventhaldler of the form, the
original eventhandler of the frame is not restored.