In fact, you can still have multiple editor windows spread over multiple monitors too if you wish, with each one hosting a designed form… and we’ve even tweaked a wide range of areas and UX or behaviour tweaks while you do! Here you can see RAD Studio spread over two monitors. What does this mean? Does it mean you can’t have multiple editor or designer windows, for example? No! Very much not. When assessing the feature, we made the hard decision to remove it.

This behaviour has been replaced by modern docked designing for seventeen years, requiring you to manually turn on the old-style feature, and unfortunately did not always behave well. The ‘floating form designer’ is when you turn this off, and it allows the form you are designing to be a window among other windows that is, it’s not embedded in the main IDE, but mimics the Delphi 1-though-7 behaviour where the designed form can be above or behind the editor. Specifically the editor and form designer are integrated in the main window.

Layouts and Multiple Monitors: aka, ‘when does the IDE change things?’Įver since 2003, the RAD Studio IDE has been ‘docked’: that is, while you can drag tool windows like the Palette, Object Inspector, Messages, Watches and so forth to float, the overall design of the IDE is an integrated window.

There are two sections to this blog post: first, a change to an old IDE feature second, a new feature, and key areas that you may be very happy we’ve focused on!

But, in 10.4.1 we’ve also spent that time on new features, and we’ve implemented a couple of really commonly requested items.

10.4.1 has had a lot of work in the IDE and will be much smoother for you once you install. RAD Studio 10.4.1 is a quality-focused release, and this goes for the IDE! We’ve addressed many items including some very commonly requested changes read more below.Ī ‘quality-focused release’ means one where we introduce very few new features, and focus 95% of our development efforts on quality.

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