The old Component Toolbar is back and better in RAD Studio 2010
We hear a lot of developers like the old Component Toolbar from Delphi 7/C++Builder 6, and consider that one of reason not to move to the new release. In RAD Studio 2010 you can now use the old Component Toolbar and/or the new Tool Palette.
To activate the Component Toolbar just right click on the main toolbar and select Component. After that you can right click on the Component Toolbar to see the list of all categories available or just navigate through the tabs and chose one.
The configuration of the Tool Pallete and Component Toolbar are independent, for example you can reorder the categories, and the most cool feature is the search box for the components on the Component Toolbar.
Also, you have a new way to find components through the IDE Insight.
More to come, stay tuned.
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Posted by Andreano Lanusse on August 5th, 2009 under Delphi, English |
August 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
It’s great to have it back. It was 1 of the reasons I’m still using D7.
Now I just have to wait if any of the other reasons are addressed.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I mentioned this in another blog, so you may have been asked this already.
Could you try this, please?
Stretch the toolbar over two (or more?) monitors, save the desktop, close Delphi and reopen.
Is it still stretched over both monitors, or is it now only over the main monitor?
In D5 it stayed stretched over both monitors, but in D7 it was broken and annoyingly jumped back to only the primary monitor.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I am pretty dang happy to see it back. In my D7 IDE, it was tucked up in the top right part of the toolbar that is normally just gray. I toss out a pile of other toolbar buttons and such that I just never use to make a bit more space for it horizontally (plus I have a pretty wide display).
It ought to recover a good swath of space in the designer.
As I am one of the people who bitched about this pretty much since the new tool palette came into being, I am very happy to see the dev team bring it back (and add the filtering ability to it - just like we always knew it could have). Glad to see we are being heard.
Is it too much to hope for a full return to the old style of undocked forms while designing at some point in the future? Perhaps not!
August 6th, 2009 at 5:41 am
After being told so often in non-tech we didn’t need the old toolbar, it’s nice to see it came back.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Trivial? Yes. But very glad to see it back where it belongs.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Would be great if we could set up some custom shortcuts to a palette pages. From my experience, I have like 50+ pages, but use components only from 15-20.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
[...] Delphi7-style виде. Читаем обзор функции на Wings of Wind, а также у Andreano Lanusse и