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Report From: Delphi-BCB/FireMonkey/Form Designer    [ Add a report in this area ]  
Report #:  108037   Status: Closed
Possible IDE Modifications
Project:  Delphi Build #:  XE2
Version:    16.4 Submitted By:   Ernest Zore
Report Type:  Minor failure / Design problem Date Reported:  8/17/2012 1:28:08 PM
Severity:    Commonly encountered problem Last Updated: 8/23/2012 5:32:32 PM
Platform:    All versions Internal Tracking #:  
Resolution: Test Case Error (Resolution Comments) Resolved in Build: : None
Duplicate of:  None
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Description
I made these few notes about the XE2 IDE (FMX form designer)that I hoped might be addressed in XE3.

1. Guidelines. The alignment guidelines that appear when you?e moving components around on the design window are quite helpful (present in previous Delphi versions) and they speed up the development process considerably for those of us that create legal/business/tax forms with lots of controls.

2. Tabbing Order. Another factor that slows development time considerably is the fact that tabbing order cannot be set in the design mode, but instead must be tediously arranged in the ?iew form as text) mode.

3. Editing. With form design it happens often enough that I want to change a parameter for a bunch of controls. In prior versions of Delphi, I could click on the control, then click on the parameter in the Object Inspector, and make my change. All other changes to that same parameter in other controls could be performed by merely clicking on the control and then typing. In XE2-FMX, this can? be done. Instead, after you click on the next control, you must click back in the Object Inspector to give focus back to the parameter in question. Do this to a couple hundred controls and you get involved in quite a lot of extra clicking. On a wide screen monitor you can also get into a lot of additional scrolling.

4. Scroll box editing. We use scroll boxes quite often. In previous versions of Delphi, you could use the scroll bars and mouse wheel (and paging keys I believe) to move around in the scroll box in design mode. In XE2-FMX, paging keys, and scroll bars don? work. Only the mouse wheel allows you to move around in the scroll box. If your mouse doesn? have a working wheel, you may be out of luck because I haven? found an alternate way to move around.
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Comments

Karol Bieniaszewski at 8/21/2012 8:57:58 AM -
Add 2.
You have tab order menu when you Right Click on Form

Ernest Zore at 8/23/2012 5:02:14 PM -
What I reported is only true of the FMX Form Designer, not the VCL Designer. The Tab Order item is not present in the FMX Form Designer context menu.

Karol Bieniaszewski at 9/27/2012 1:11:56 AM -
Sorry - i ommit FMX context

Tomohiro Takahashi at 8/22/2012 4:49:06 AM -
> 1. Guidelines.
> 2. Tabbing Order.
These issues are already logged in QualityCentral.

> 3. Editing.
Does this issue occur only with FireMonkey form designer?
Same issue amy occur also on VCL form with recent versions of Delphi.
So, same issue is already logged in QualityCentral.

Ernest Zore at 8/23/2012 5:04:33 PM -
Sorry to repeat these points.

Yes, all the comments I made were with reference to the FMX form designer and not the VCL form designer.

Tomohiro Takahashi at 8/22/2012 4:54:04 AM -
> 4. Scroll box editing.
Is the issue about Design Time behavior of TScrollBox component?
Could you please put new QC report about the issue? I will open it.

Ernest Zore at 8/23/2012 5:06:04 PM -
I did as you suggested and opened a new QC report with respect to this issue.

Thank you.

Tomohiro Takahashi at 8/23/2012 5:33:42 PM -
ok, I will check it out.

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