Vannus schrieb:
to handle screen sizes maybe layouts should allow 'absolute' (1280
pixels) or 'relative' (100%) positioning/sizing?
A nice idea.
It may lead to strange results, when restoring a layout from a 600x800
screen on a multi-monitor desktop, regardless of whether it's absolute
or relative. Another problem to be solved...
Also, who specifies which coordinates should be absolute, and which
should be relative? Do you want to write and use such an editor?
Whenever a layout is to be saved?
A) Every layout is stored in an file. How can the IDE find the most
appropriate layout file?
project1.layout
%user%/lazarus/layouts/default.layout
%user%/lazarus/layouts/myother.layout
%lazarus%/layouts/default.layout
Question is not *where* the layouts are, instead *what* the layouts are
for, i.e. *which* of these files to use.
Lazarus can be shipped with any number of layouts, and the user can pick
from them whatever he likes - this requires no special coding. Question
is about automatic selection, based on which criteria, and in which
situation.
instead of just a generic default.layout, id also suggest:-
vcl_app.layout
simplecgi_app.layout
console_app.layout
These could be loaded when a new project is created. I'm not sure
whether the project type is known later, when an existing project is
reopened.
B) With multiple editor windows, the layout includes the files, open
in an editor window. How to deal with the currently open files, when
a different layout is restored?
maybe leave them in their own editor window, just open new ones for
restored layout.
It may be not a good idea to restore open files with a layout at all...
Nonetheless it's not a problem to remove that part from the code, and
replace it by any other mechanism - we only should find a convenient
solution for handling open files when switching between layouts. In the
IDE, every editor file may be tagged with a "preferred" editor window
number...
DoDi
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