This change is by design. When a NEW TAdvPanel instance is dropped on the form it has the caption enabled by default.
Um, I no longer use the standard TPanel. You've added enough extra work :(
This should NOT cause ANY work for existing applications. When an existing application used a TAdvPanel without caption, it should remain WITHOUT caption. It is only for NEW TAdvPanel instances added to an application at design-time that we changed the default for the reason to make this caption feature more apparent.
Except that I only use the Caption only occasionally. I'll survive it somehow :)
I agree: one of the nice things about the component was that, unlike Tpanel, it did not default to the senseless default of enabling the Caption. I do not recall ever having used the caption of a panel. Yes, it is only a couple of clicks for every new panel, so just a minor backward step.
The caption in TAdvPanel is not the same as the TPanel caption that is just some text in the middle of the panel.
We fixed it.
Bruno, Thanks!
This will be a nice gift for the New Year. Well thank you very much.