[Solved]Moved components disappear
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Ruptor · 2016-03-31 23:59

My application has one form but I wanted to change it to multiple
pages so I expanded the form added a tpagecontrol and created two
pages. The next step was to move all my components from the main form
to the first page so I selected everything and dragged the lot on to
the first page but none of the components appeared they remained in
the dot format. I waited in case it was taking a long time but nothing
changed so I tried to move the selected block back to the main form.
Only some of the components appeared the rest are just gone. I am
probably doing something stupid or perhaps not allowed to do so could
someone explain what happened and point me in the right direction to
achieve my goal.

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balazsszekely · 2016-04-01 04:13

There was a copy/paste(TPageControl) issue recently, I believe @Juha
fixed it. You should run a few test with Lazarus trunk.

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JuhaManninen · 2016-04-01 09:21

Quote from: GetMem on April 01, 2016, 06:13:19 amThere was a
copy/paste(TPageControl) issue recently, I believe @Juha fixed it. You
should run a few test with Lazarus trunk.

It was this old issue:
  http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24386
The "fix" is rather a hack and prevents TabSheets from being copied.
Copying TPageControl is also prevented with GTK2.

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Ruptor · 2016-04-01 09:58

Ok how can I achieve my goal can I do it manually or is it quicker to
start a new project with pages? Starting again I can understand so
probably this is the route I will take since expert solutions are
usually too complicated for me. I am just an amateur High level
programmer and had I known how to use pages when I started the code I
would have used them.
All I need to do is get the components that are on the one form to a
page of a multiple page set up.

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Ruptor · 2016-04-01 10:05

Oh! I read the bug report and it gives the solution as starting again.
I can do that. Thanks

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JuhaManninen · 2016-04-01 10:41

Quote from: Ruptor on April 01, 2016, 12:05:18 pmOh! I read the bug
report and it gives the solution as starting again.

One of the comments also says you can edit the .lfm file.
It is easy. The file is ASCII text with a simple syntax.