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Hrvoje Brozovic · Guest

Started playing with Dezign for databases,
found it from in CD from Xaviers Delphi 8 book.

It is interesting app, good support for many formats.

But, it use docking and now is completely broken.

I wanted to see entity attributes so I can code
coresponding pascal record structure in Delphi code.

So i resized it (made Dezign window mutch smaller) so
table attributes be side by side with Delphi code editor.

After coding was done, i wanted to go back to normal
size of Dezign application window, and here it is.
All that docked stuff is everywhere around
app window, separators more than 10cm in heigh taking
most of space. Playing cat and mouse with elements
all over application client space is fun for first few minutes,
I move one thing, other runs away and so on.
Toolbar area is 70%, with only few percent taken
ba actuall toolbars, all other are giant separators.

This is happennig in many apps,
After size is restored, toolbars are completely nuts.
This whole docking thing is crap.

In my only retail (unknown user) app,
I put big effort in adjusting to user resizing,
and keeping things usable in all circumstences.

During this writing, I found View/Restore/Restore toolbars
menu option, so big plus for Dezign, but docking still sucks for me.