GUI design

Overview

When working on lazarus, certain design guidelines need to be taken into consideration. To prevent a diverity of styles and ensure the clarity of dialogs. The next article tries to summarize several guidlines to help you designing.

Dialogs

When adding forms to lazarus, be sure to keep in mind what is trying to be achieved here. Do you need the user to make some setting? Or should the form stay on top until the user closes it? In principal the following guidelines should be followed;

- dialogs that require userinput before continueing should be of the following type;

Item Setting

BorderStyle bsToolWindow

Position poScreenCenter

They should be always shown using ShowModal

- on the bottom of the dialog a panel should be placed with an Ok / Cancel / Help button (see section ...)