... these going forward. 1. modal windows don't work properly under Wine on Linux/Mac/CrossOver. I have put in a kludgy fix for that, but ideally we would use far fewer modal dialogs. They annoy users by requiring to be dismissed before the program can continue. 2. child forms aren't properly implemented by the Lazarus compiler. There might be a way round that if we dig deeper into Lazarus. The reason for using child forms is simply me being lazy. They provide a quick way of having a draggable resizable scrolling panel which doesn't take focus away from the parent form. That could be provided by coding a TPanel component instead, although making it resizable is a lot of work. 1. At present this shows modal and must be dismissed before the program can continue. That's because at present it doesn't update automatically. In which case, if it wasn't modal, it would be left showing incorrect data when a different template is clicked. If we arrange for it to update when a template is clicked, it doesn't need ...

... left as it can go. This is to avoid obstructing your view of the template while referring to its menu. For multiple monitors I assumed that users would a) have the primary monitor on the left, and b) have Templot running across all monitors, or running on the left one(s) only with other stuff on the right. I can change the pop-up position, but I have a feeling that wherever I put it will be wrong for someone. I will look at putting it in a draggable tool window, so that you can move it to wherever you want. Note that you don't have to mouse all across the screen to it. In 082d and later, most items on the menu have underlined accelerator keys. So to z oom pad to fit you can just click on the template and then press Z on the keyboard. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Apr 2008 21:46 from: jeckardt I can accept "by design". I only have a limited usage history at the moment so ...

... on the trackpad. This does not make for comfortable working- especially not for the mouse-action panel and the mouse actions. I have spent all day today chasing this stuff round in circles. It can all be fixed, but not quickly or easily. It may be that if I had spent 25 years using Lazarus, as I have with Delphi, I would know a simple solution to all this. But as it is I don't, and the only practical way seems to be to use a home-made draggable TPanel component instead. Which is certainly doable, interesting even, but definitely not quick. Or possibly to look for some 3rd party ready-made open-source component instead. There are plenty of closed-source paid-for components such as those from DevExpress, but we can't use those in an open-source project: http://www.devexpress.com/products/vcl/ What I think I'm saying here is that the dream of switching everything to Templot3 from Templot2 in the next few months is looking a bit ...