I have a lot of files to keep open, and the current single line of tabs is just difficult. I see that GExperts and CNPack does not have that (unless I missed that).
Is there any trick to achieve that, or any other suggestion that I could have more tabs visible?
The TIDEGradientTabSet (if it's still used in modern Delphi) doesn't support multiline view, so the only option for those IDE experts could be making own tab set control hiding the original one.
Alternatives are:
On the far right of the tabs is a small down arrow. Press that, and you'll see a list of all the files that are open in the editor;
Pressing Ctrl+B will open up a dialog to select a tab;
TMS has a free tool AltTab but it did not get update for while. That was exactly what was needed for Delphi IDE;
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This is my first question, I hope it will be a well constructed one.
I'm currently using Delphi 10.4 Community Edition and I installed SynEdit through the GetIt Package Manager.
The problem I'm facing is the following: I created a VCL form, dropped a TSynEdit in it and launched the application. The problem is that if I press the TAB or SHIFT+TAB, nothing happens. I tried to put breakpoints in the following methods of TSynEdit:
CommandProcessor
ExecuteCommand
DoTabKey
and the debugger never enters them while pressing those keys.
I then looked at the Keystrokes property of my TSynEdit control and, although the keystroke for TAB is defined, I think that the shortcut is "fake". What I mean is that if I try to modify what is associated to the ecTab command and manually choose the shortcut value, nor Tab or Shift+Tab are present in the listbox.
Did anyone ever experienced a problem like this? If so, how did you manage to solve it?
PS: Indentation works with other shortcuts, such as CTRL+SHIFT+I/U.
As indicated by Keith Miller, it was as simple as setting to True the property WantTabs for the TSynEdit control.
Still, if anyone knows why the TAB and SHIFT+TAB shortucts don't appear in the listbox of selectable shortcuts, please let us know.
I have a requirement to allow users to tab around a Delphi application screen in a certain order. This is fine for almost everything, except that I can't seem to find a way to tab OUT of a memo component. I realise that Tab, itself, is a legitimate key in a memo for formatting purposes.
Does anyone know if it is possible at all to tab to the next control from a Tmemo? I don't need the Tab format in the Memo, so I'm quite happy to sacrifice that.
I'm using Delphi 5 Enterprise.
Thanks in advance.
For the life of me, i can't seem to figure out how to delete primitive or control elements from a style with in the style designer of Delphi. What am I missing? I have tried right clicking everything i could find and no option surfaces. I tried looking for a panel that isn't enabled. Can't seem to find one. As of now, I have to edit the actual text and reload it, in order to delete a style element.
Delphi XE6
Delphi 10.1 Berlin
EDIT UPDATE:
How do I get this window to appear in either IDE?
EDIT UPDATE:
Looks like there is a very small button on top left of structure pane that does the trick. I will leave question open for someone to answer with any other way. If no one can, Ill post the answer and accept it.
To delete a style element (tested on Delphi 10.1 Berlin)
Right-Click the element in the Structure view to get a popup menu.
Select Edit - Delete
Or use the button (doc with red X) immediately above the structure tree.
Thanks to John, I can confirm that in XE4 .. XE7 the popup menu doesn't have the Edit menu, so the only means left is the delete button, mentioned above.
The third image (in your edit) is not familiar. Where did you get the image? Perhaps a third party style editor. Possibly not intended to be incorporated in the IDE.
In cxGrid,where do you modify the menu options when you right click in the Grid?
I would like to get rid of that "Right to left reading order","Show Unicode control characters","Insert Unicode control character","Open IME" and "Conversion". I dont need them at all.
How can I do that ?
This is the standard context menu of the Windows EDIT control, and not part of the Delphi code behind the control that you are using. In other words, the Delphi control that you are using is wrapping some system provided functionality.
I suppose that it would be possible to remove some items from that, but it's not easy. The EDIT control does not offer you any way to remove these built-in items. This issue has been discussed at the devExpress forum:
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q292288
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q102030
Have you seen this?
I have a little utility application (for easy load / test xml generation from CDS and/or DBGo), and I had put some buttons (the poorest button of all, TButton) to trigger some actions.
I never paid attention to appearance, because I'm the only one that uses it. So today I added a new button, and they appeared different from the others in designer - but not when running. It's just an copy and paste process (change the button name, caption and event - the rest is equal to the origin).
When I looked the other buttons have an grey gradient and round corners, the button I copied and pasted not (just a bare rectangle). When running all buttons where just bare rectangles.
So I discovered that on designer, W7 and delphi are applying themes. On running, they are obeying the Project/Options/Application/Enable runtime themes flag.
This is annoying. There's a way to make Delphi doing that obeying the project options flag on forms designer?
(Or even manually if is not possible to automate that)?
EDIT:
The toolbars on the form are from CNWizards ;-)
EDIT II:
Apart of disabling themes for the IDE executable, all buttons get themed equally if the form (or project) is reloaded. But it's really weird.
If you want to enable/disable themes in the IDE, then open the properties of bds.exe, select the 'Compatibility' tab, and make sure that the 'Disable visual themes' checkbox is unchecked/checked.
Programs that you run from the IDE will inherit the compatibility settings of the IDE.
Delphi IDE itself is an application and the way the designer draw the form is using the setting for the IDE application (delphi32.exe or bds.exe's compatibility settings) so the answer is no. The default behaviour is different between IDE versions, for eg. the opposite behaviour (not drawing themed) happened in past.