Hello world, new forum user here with a question.
I was trying to figure out how to ask this basic question when I found this subject.
Is there a method, addon, option, whatever.
That will make lazarus ide a single window, making the source, menu editor, or other working windows, tabs in the same basic manner as VS does.
Not like VScode, which is horrid, but plain old vanilla VS.
Just list all the open windows, and let me switch between them as I do in notepad++.
I have been using pascal for many years, making utilities for my own and customer use.
I switched from TP to FPC a long time ago, and it works great.
However, all of my stuff has been command line or TUI, which the FPC IDE handles just fine.
What it falls short on, is handling large projects, especially with a gui, which is what I have to do next.
The text handling in the text IDE lacks many features I use everyday in other programs, and I miss them.
I looked at trying to tweak it, but it is currently beyond my understanding, and I do not have time to learn it.
Now I am needing to make something with a gui, and I have no wish to deal with C/C++/VS for it.
While I can work with those languages, they are horrible.
Yet VS itself is at least consistent, and workable.
The file/class explorer on the left, open edit windows on the right, with various outputs on the bottom, much the same way that QT creator works as well, and codelite, and codeblocks, etc.
I see many of the same components/functions in Lazarus, but they are scattered, and I can find no way to organize them with my desktop sticking through, there is no way for me to tell what is what.
I have also not found the file tracker, but if it is there, I will.
I have looked, but nothing has looked right, and I am hoping I just missed it.
Here is me hoping I have simply been blind or not known the right words to look for.
Janus.