Spacely - Tool Palette enhancement
When the new Tool Palette was introduced in Delphi 2005 it seemed you either loved it or hated it. Most that gave the new Tool Palette a chance think that it is far superior to the older component palette. I am definitely one of those.
The best feature of the Tool Palette was the filtering ability. Click on the caption and begin typing and any components that start with the text entered are displayed.
An improvement to the Tool Palette in Spacely is that the search is now a "contains" search, so if I type in dialog all components that contain dialog in its name are displayed in the tool palette.
Don't like the new feature? Easy, just start all your filters with T.
It is also important to point out that the Tool Palette was the cause of some slowness in BDS2006. Especially when you had a large number of components installed. With Spacely there has been significant work on all things speed related. The Tool Palette received some attention and is now a very slick part of the IDE.
The best feature of the Tool Palette was the filtering ability. Click on the caption and begin typing and any components that start with the text entered are displayed.
An improvement to the Tool Palette in Spacely is that the search is now a "contains" search, so if I type in dialog all components that contain dialog in its name are displayed in the tool palette.
Don't like the new feature? Easy, just start all your filters with T.
It is also important to point out that the Tool Palette was the cause of some slowness in BDS2006. Especially when you had a large number of components installed. With Spacely there has been significant work on all things speed related. The Tool Palette received some attention and is now a very slick part of the IDE.
Labels: Spacely, Tool Palette
posted by JED at 3:58 PM
2 Comments:
Nice thing these "appetizers" about Delphi 2007!
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