IDE notebook tabs suddenly changed
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Manlio · 2020-03-30 19:19

Using Lazarus IDE on Windows, all of a sudden, the notebook tabs of
the different files opened in the editor have changed appearance --
before they were regular tabs, now they are plain text with a
different background color.

See the attached image: above is an example of regular tabs, and below
is how the tabs now look in my IDE.

I looked everywhere but I cannot find any options or setting for
changing the appearance back to regular tabs.

Can anyone kindly suggest how to change the appearance back to regular
tabs?

Thanks!

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GAN · 2020-03-30 21:41

It happens to me sometimes, right click on any tab and select options,
then restore to default values.

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Manlio · 2020-03-30 22:50

Quote from: GAN on March 30, 2020, 11:41:57 pmright click on any tab
and select options

There's no such "options" menu item. If I right click I can only
"close tab", or "move to" or "clone to".

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GAN · 2020-03-30 23:01

I'm sorry, I thought you meant the tabs of the Lazarus IDE.

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eljo · 2020-03-30 23:05

Quote from: GAN on March 31, 2020, 01:01:34 amI'm sorry, I thought you
meant the tabs of the Lazarus IDE.
I do not see an options menu when I right click on an editor tab on my
lazarus installation either.

Is it possible that a recently installed addin might be responsible
for both behaviors you two describe?

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Manlio · 2020-03-30 23:16

Quote from: eljo on March 31, 2020, 01:05:09 amIs it possible that a
recently installed addin might be responsible for both behaviors you
two describe?

Not in my case. The tabs appearance changed suddenly, while I was
typing something in the editor, I must have accidentally pressed Ctrl-
something-something and the regular styled tabs disappeared and were
replaced by plain text, like some "flat" buttons.

Right-clicking on the tabs themselves opens a small popup menu without
anything useful for this purpose.

Right-clicking on the editor and then "Options" is the same as Tools >
Options > Editor, but that also doesn't contain any setting that I
could find that changes the appearance back to regular tabs.

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Martin_fr · 2020-03-30 23:42

Do you have any packages installed?

I noted, that the vertical order of (pseudo) tabs, and toolbar
changed. The Tabs are now above the editor toolbar.

Try to start your IDE with an empty config (-pcp or --pcp)
lazarus.exe -pcp=d:\empty_folder

You can later switch back to your current config, by starting without
that option.

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Martin_fr · 2020-03-30 23:45

Looks like this: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Package_Tabs

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Manlio · 2020-03-31 01:02

Quote from: Martin_fr on March 31, 2020, 01:45:24 amLooks like this:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Package_Tabs

SOLVED, thanks!

I uninstalled the Package_Tabs and that solved the problem.

Thanks again!