How to activate/use this feature in D2010 ?!?
I have checked Zoom to full screen in Tools > Option > Editor Option > Display clicked Ok button but nothing happened. Ok, i said to myself, let's see what the help has to say about this. I pressed F1 key, wait a little, help's coming up but as i have expected, it has no idea about this, ironically: the help didn't help. Google did find some old blog posts which provided some outdated information like double click on the editor tab or pressing F5 will do the thick. But, that's not the case, so i'm asking here maybe somebody has more information about this.
That option controls whether the code editor, when zoomed, will zoom to occupy the entire screen. If that option isn't set, then maximizing the edit window will leave space at the top of the screen for the main IDE application window. If you never maximize the editor window, then that setting has no effect. It might also only have an effect when you're using the "classic undocked" layout mode.
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According to the Online Help, there should be magnifying glass icons with +/- signs for zooming in/out. I do not have these
The normal hot keys Ctrl++/= and Ctrl+- also do not work.
I have to go into Tools > Preferences > Appearance to set font sizes. This is not convenient.
Why do Ctrl++/= and Ctrl+- not work?
Is there a way to get the zoom icons onto the GUI?
Ultimately, I want to be able to zoom in on a whim to read small text, then zoom out on a whim to read the rest of the non-small text. This is made necessary by aging eyes and the fact that the text font & size varies, not only across the GUI, but also within the same pane. This is not obvious in the Help pane pictured above, but the text following the Definition section is bigger. If I maximize the Spyder GUI window and maximize the Help pane, I am looking at both Definition text and the larger ensuing text. It'd be great to zoom in and out on a per-pane basis, but zooming in/out on a whole-GUI basis would be better than not at all (or having to navigate to Preferences).
P.S. I am using Spyder 4.1.5 on Windows 10.
(Spyder maintainer here) Unfortunately the shortcuts Ctrl++/Ctrl+- don't work to Zoom In/Out in our Help pane.
However, you can perform those actions by doing a mouse right-click on that pane to get its context menu and click on their corresponding entries, as shown below:
This is not a question about JQM panels scrolling independently of the page, though that is an issue I've had trouble with and almost overcome, this is about making the panel scroll smoothly and ignore the device browser's edge event (or whatever the correct term is, I'll explain below).
Basically, I'm trying to replicate the menu on Google's mobile site, which naturally isn't using JQM like us common folk. I've got it pretty close, but the scrolling animation is very rigid. I need it be momentum-based rather than fixed to your finger.
Also, when you reach the top or bottom of the menu, it's considered the extremes of the document so the browser moves the whole document up or down to indicate the edge of the page. Instead, the page should never move while the panel is open and the menu should take on this behaviour within the panel.
Since I've set the panel height to 100%, this forces the address bar on iOS Safari to come down when the menu is open. This seems to be exactly what happens on Google, but if there's a way around this I'd love to hear it.
Finally, one downside of the way I've emulated independent scrolling is to just set the content wrap as fixed when the panel is open. However, this means the page always scrolls to the top when the panel opens. Any alternatives for this would be appreciated. I suppose I could just set the page top as scrollTop or something.
To summarise:
Panel menu needs to scroll smoothly (momentum rather than direct touch)
Elastic edge on menu rather than window
iOS Safari address bar interfering with height
Page fixed at top when panel open
If any of my descriptions don't make sense, just visit google.com on your phone and check out their menu.
ScrollFix seems to have solved all my issues.
Two buttons on the view toolbar in Delphi disappeared and I can't get them back. One of those buttons is the one to switch between code/unit and the design/form view which I use all the time. The keyboard shortcut for switching (F12) still works, but I have one of those pesky media keyboards where you have to press a function key to access F-keys, so I'd really like to get that toolbar button back.
I tried resetting all the toolbars and their contents, and I see space where the buttons should be, but they aren't there. In the customize dialog for the toolbar, the commands don't seem to even be there anymore.
I tried doing a "repair" re-installation of Delphi, but even that didn't fix it. Has anyone else had this happen before, or have ideas on how to repair or reset my IDE?
edit: perhaps it's worth mentioning the menu options to toggle between code/unit and design/form view are also missing.
As best I can tell, this problem (missing view unit/form button and menu option) could possibly be a limitation of the starter edition of Delphi (this forum post: https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=83324 ) seems to indicate an XE3 user with starter edition has the same missing buttons on their toolbar.
I did discover at the bottom of the screen there are tabs to switch between code, design, and history, which does at least give a mouse-based workaround to toggling between the views without having to expand the file view and click the right pas/dfm file. And the F12 keyboard shortcut does still work as well.
I am using the new BrowserField2 in BlackBerry OS5 to display HTML content in my app. There are 3 options available for navigation through links in that content.
CURSOR navigation uses a block cursor and actually moves through the characters of the page. Not very useful for me.
POINTER navigation uses a mouse like pointer that you move around the screen and hover over elements. This could work but there is a bug however in that the browser field captures navigation and never lets go so this mode is effectively broken if you share a screen with any other managers. Once your focus enters the browser field you cannot move focus back out and into neighboring fields. RIM has acknowledged the bug but has no work around.
NONE which is for custom navigation but they offer no explanation as to how you would do this.
What I ideally want is to simply have trackpad movements move the focus through the links and highlight them. Then a click would activate the link. I assume I would select the NONE option above and implement my own focus navigation but I am not clear how this can be accomplished with the new APIs.
Is anyone familiar with the new browser2 component could give some guidance?
Thanks!
There's a workaroudn to getting back the focus out of the BrowserField using the NAVIGATION_POINTER.
I found it in this thread:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/BrowserField-2-Navigation-Mode/td-p/632172
"farahh" posted this:
I found out a hack..
with the navigation set to pointer mode, a click outside the browserfield manager invokes Manager.invokeAction(int). I used the getFieldWithFocus to verify which field has focus and then switch the focus to something else.
Cheers.
Nahuel
PD: i havent found out how to get the behaviour you want, i need that as well so if you got it working please let me know, its kinda urgent in my project =(
I actually reverted back to the older browser1 (OS4) component because the navigation problems in browserField2 (OS5) were a deal breaker for me. Luckily the OS4 browser does everything I need in terms of functionality and it has the exact navigation behavior I need and there are no focus problems mixing it with other views.
i have a flow panel that i'm adding extra items to it at runtime based on whether they have chosen to show all the items. that's all works fine; the expansion is controlled by a toolbar button.
the trouble is we'd like the user to be able to move his mouse over the "+" sign to expand the section.
initially i looked at TSpeedButton (OnMouseEnter) but even when it's "Flat", the focus rectangle still shows and so the glyph isn't centered. the main problem with this solution is it's appearance.
then i looked at making a descendant of TImage. that's a bit "unconventional" but it'd work. in OnMouseEnter or OnClick, it'd toggle an internal boolean "Expanded" flag and then load the appropriate picture from a resource. i have a dislike for unconventional solutions like that.
i need to add it to a few different screens so it's probably prudent for me to have/build a component for this. i have JVCL but i don't see anything suitable offhand.
thank you for your comments/help!
I always liked the approach used by the ModelMaker Code Explorer.
For example, when you're adding a new method, some rarely-used stuff is displayed collapsed ('Options and Directives' in the image below).
(source: 17slon.com)
When you hover over the text, you notice that it's actually a flat button. (Except that it's not - I believe Gerrit does some custom painting magic here).
(source: 17slon.com)
When you click this button, a panel appears. Button is still there, but with a new image. You can click it to close the panel.
(source: 17slon.com)
The state of this toggle button is preserved between sessions. IOW, even if you restart the Delphi, next tima you invoke 'Add Method', the 'Options and Directives' panel will appear exactly as you left it the last time.
i have a dislike for unconventional solutions like that.
Over the past few years, I have grown a bit suspicious of unconventional UI solutions — which is what you seem to be creating here. Why not just use a button that the user actually has to click? That seems to be much more common in the software I use, be it MS Office or programming utilities. Also, I'd make the button somewhat larger: in the screenshot, it really seems like a tiny little thing you have to target with your mouse cursor. Oh well, and if I'm bugging you with advise you haven't asked for anyway, why not give it ">>" as a caption instead of "+"? And if you'd give it a textual caption with a mnemonic as well, it'd actually be keyboard accessible. All this should make your UI better and more intuitive. I guess.
I do apologize for not answering your question, but I hope you'll spend 2 minutes thinking whether your users would actually prefer this solution :-)
Good luck!
Actually, I think that using a TImage in this situation is pretty conventional. I have seen many people suggest using the TImage, when either the TButton, or any of its associates did not have the right amount of control for whatever the developer was trying to do.
Have you tried a TBitBtn? I think when you get rid of the text it centers whatever image you have associated with it. I just checked in Delphi 6, all I have installed on this machine, and it had the MouseMove event.