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by yardshop 3229 days ago
The floating windows were still very much present in Delphi 7, my preferred arrangement [0]. D7 was the last "good" version before the .NET era. Actually I remember the buzz around Lazarus and Free Pascal really growing when the .NET versions of Delphi came out. So I think its fair to say Lazarus took plenty of influence from versions later than D2.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/gHQR6aH.png
2 comments
gfody 3229 days ago
oh dang I used D7 for years and didn't know you could configure it into this mode. I would've preferred it at the time.

I'd say clearly Lazarus is tracking the best of Delphi, not just version 2 from 1995.

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yardshop 3229 days ago
It's been years since I worked in Delphi regularly, but I still have it installed and have been looking around in it this evening for the first time in a long while. Right now I can't find the option to change from this to a single-window mode, but I'm not sure there is one.

I think the trick is to just not run it maximized, then undock the various parts from the main editor window. Then once you have things resized and placed where you want, you save it as a Desktop layout. I don't know how far back that feature goes.

I would have to reinstall it from scratch somewhere to see how it looks by default. I really want to do this and dare say I even intend to! I may even have D5 and D3 somewhere in a box too, but now I'm approaching self-promise overload!!

Here it is maximized and docked. Is that something like what you remember?

http://i.imgur.com/aeTYPjb.png

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gfody 3228 days ago
it's a real blur but I do recall doing the unmaximize and undock stuff to get things looking just right. I distinctly recall no longer being able to do that in some version.. I thought it was 5 but you've proven me wrong. maybe D2005?
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fredsted 3229 days ago
I'm pretty sure that was the default mode, I never knew you could not have windowed mode.
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codewritinfool 3229 days ago
Agreed, it seems that the odd-numbered Delphi versions were the best.... 3, 5, 7. 7 was my main environment for years.
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yardshop 3229 days ago
Those are the versions I had. It seemed to parallel the odd numbered Windows versions too, or at least that every other version was decent.
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