Copying a control to the toolbar for temporary selection.
lazarus / 10-Designer

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vfclists · 2024-09-01 14:04

IIRC Delphi has a system where if you need rapid access to a set of
one or more grouped controls which may be held in a parent container
such as a panel, you can copy it to the components toolbar and select
it whenever you want onto a form.

Is that feature available in the Lazarus IDE?

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dsiders · 2024-09-01 14:43

Quote from: vfclists on September 01, 2024, 04:04:57 pmIIRC Delphi has
a system where if you need rapid access to a set of one or more
grouped controls which may be held in a parent container such as a
panel, you can copy it to the components toolbar and select it
whenever you want onto a form.

Is that feature available in the Lazarus IDE?

Are you referring to TFrame?

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Frames
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/lcl/forms/tframe.html

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vfclists · 2024-09-01 19:06

Quote from: dsiders on September 01, 2024, 04:43:22 pmQuote from:
vfclists on September 01, 2024, 04:04:57 pmIIRC Delphi has a system
where if you need rapid access to a set of one or more grouped
controls which may be held in a parent container such as a panel, you
can copy it to the components toolbar and select it whenever you want
onto a form.

Is that feature available in the Lazarus IDE?

Are you referring to TFrame?

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Frames
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/lcl/forms/tframe.html

No, not Tframe. It applies to any control you have made some changes
to that you want to make permanently available or just for the
session. So for instance of you want a panel with a green border, you
can create a panel with a green border, place it on the components
palette, and any time you want a panel with a green border you just
choose it from the component palette.

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alpine · 2024-09-01 20:34

Quote from: vfclists on September 01, 2024, 09:06:22 pmNo, not Tframe.
It applies to any control you have made some changes to that you want
to make permanently available or just for the session. So for instance
of you want a panel with a green border, you can create a panel with a
green border, place it on the components palette, and any time you
want a panel with a green border you just choose it from the component
palette.
Doesn't copy/paste do the same thing?

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Joanna · 2024-09-02 11:13

Are you trying to create a custom control and add it to the componets
palette?

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dseligo · 2024-09-02 12:11

Quote from: alpine on September 01, 2024, 10:34:32 pmQuote from:
vfclists on September 01, 2024, 09:06:22 pmNo, not Tframe. It applies
to any control you have made some changes to that you want to make
permanently available or just for the session. So for instance of you
want a panel with a green border, you can create a panel with a green
border, place it on the components palette, and any time you want a
panel with a green border you just choose it from the component
palette.
Doesn't copy/paste do the same thing?

It does the same, but this is better. I.e. I *never* use TDBGrid for
entering data, so I always adapt it a bit (I set it readonly, just in
case, turn off dgIndicator, turn on dgRowSelect and similar). Similar
is with some other controls (I always set scrollbars in TMemo). This
would allow it to just click it in the components toolbar.

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vfclists · 2024-09-02 20:39

Quote from: alpine on September 01, 2024, 10:34:32 pmQuote from:
vfclists on September 01, 2024, 09:06:22 pmNo, not Tframe. It applies
to any control you have made some changes to that you want to make
permanently available or just for the session. So for instance of you
want a panel with a green border, you can create a panel with a green
border, place it on the components palette, and any time you want a
panel with a green border you just choose it from the component
palette.
Doesn't copy/paste do the same thing?

Copy and paste requires that the form with the component is always at
hand, meaning it must be common all projects or packages.

This method avoids that.