Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Marco van de Voort via lazarus wrote: On 6-4-2022 14:47, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: * When writing: write UnitName.ComponentName instead of ComponentName.   A trivial change, which can be done in a backward compatible manner. It only will break compatibilit

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Marco van de Voort via lazarus
On 6-4-2022 14:47, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote: * When writing: write UnitName.ComponentName instead of ComponentName.   A trivial change, which can be done in a backward compatible manner. It only will break compatibility with Delphi needlessly.   This will complicate making e.g.

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: Am 06.04.2022 um 12:56 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus: 3. Please add a search edit in the component palette, as delphi has it:    typing in that edit should reduce the visible tabs to show only tabs that have a    component with t

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Sven Barth wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 14:47: On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 12:56: 1. Currently a component is identified by its class na

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 06.04.2022 um 12:56 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus: 3. Please add a search edit in the component palette, as delphi has it:    typing in that edit should reduce the visible tabs to show only tabs that have a    component with the typed text in the classname, just like the one on the

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Sven Barth via lazarus
Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 14:47: > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: > > > Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb > am > > Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 12:56: > > > >> > >> 1. Currently a component is identified by its class name. > >> > >> This

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 12:56: 1. Currently a component is identified by its class name. This should be enhanced: a component must be identified with UnitName.Name. a unit name is a "namespace

Re: [Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Sven Barth via lazarus
Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Mi., 6. Apr. 2022, 12:56: > > 1. Currently a component is identified by its class name. > > This should be enhanced: a component must be identified with > UnitName.Name. > a unit name is a "namespace" and so MyControls.TButton <> > StdCtrls.TButt

[Lazarus] Component palette enhancements

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
Hello, I'm probably kicking in an open door when I'm saying that lazarus evolves and grows. This is good news, obviously. But I have now more tabs on the component palette than can fit on the screen. There is a dropdown with the tabs, but that's hardly usable to quickly locate a component. I