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Bahamut

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Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« on: February 09, 2019, 11:15:47 pm »
Hey everyone!

I decided to check the latest version of Lazarus (2.0.0 x64) but i'm having an annoying issue. Every time i minimize and then restore the IDE, the form (designer) always disappears. I have to use Shift-F12 each time to view the designer again. Am i doing something wrong or that's the way it should be? I remember i had the same problem with 1.8.4 so i was using 1.6.4 which was fine. I'm working on Win7.

Thank you in advance and i'm sorry for such a noobish question.

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2019, 11:52:48 pm »
It's the same in trunk (Win 10).

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2019, 11:57:00 pm »
Every time i minimize and then restore the IDE, the form (designer) always disappears.
Confirm. The same.

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2019, 01:44:48 am »
It does NOT happen here: Lazarus/FPC 1.8.4/3.0.4 Linux-i386-GTK2.

Can it be it happens only in Windows?
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Handoko

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2019, 04:08:34 am »
Every time i minimize and then restore the IDE, the form (designer) always disappears.
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I remember i had the same problem with 1.8.4 so i was using 1.6.4 which was fine. I'm working on Win7.

It never happened on my Lazarus 1.8.4 Linux.

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2019, 01:43:27 pm »
On Linux, when I minimize the IDE I get not one but several icons on my taskbar and I have to click all of them to get a functional IDE back.
I find that extremely annoying.
I use KDE Plasma as WM on Mint 18.2, but IIRC it was the same on Suse 10.0 with KDE (that's a very long time ago).

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2019, 02:24:06 pm »
In KDE settings set "Group similar windows" (or something like that) or in Lazarus IDE options->Window enable "Show single button in task bar".

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2019, 02:41:15 pm »
In KDE settings set "Group similar windows" (or something like that)
Could not find that (language is Dutch).

Lazarus IDE options->Window enable "Show single button in task bar".

Now the reverse happens.
It always shows the form on top, even if I minimized with SE on top.

Bart

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Re: Form disappears after restoring minimized lazarus ide
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2019, 03:07:41 pm »
It is a known problem: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32266

If you work with docked design (packages AnchorDockingDsgn and sparta_DockedFormEditor installed), you don't have this issue.
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