Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > The same things you see there can be easily done in Lazarus ?
Maybe somehow, dunno how easily ;-) > Whether I write - rather obscure - layouting code for the start as > displayed there, or I write a 'OnResize' event handler and do some > minor adjustments myself (the improved anchoring of lazarus gets > you a long way), the fact remains that I must take care of > the layouting by writing code manually ? Most widgetsets have no concept of persistence, so everything must be set up in code. > If you had a nice property editor, maybe then it would be better. > Even so, creating a usable property editor for such a complicated > matter is not going to be easy, I think. You address an sensitive topic. Now I realize what I don't like with the Lazarus anchor editor - it lacks a visualization of the designed dependencies, for a quick design, overview and verification of the overall layout. It violates my primary design rule: keep it simple! Of course people have very different meanings about "useful" layout managers, in so far the most powerful layout manager may address the needs of everybody, even if every single developer only uses his favorite subset of the offered features. Nonetheless I fear that the outcome will be "write only", with little chances that somebody will be able to update any existing complex layout, perhaps except for it's inventor :-( I for my part would prefer a strictly structured (layered, nested) layout, where frames can be used to visualize the nesting in design mode. Just as is demonstrated in the last item of the MiG layout manager. When structured code is the accepted "best" coding style nowadays, because it's clear, understandable, extensible, and can be verified easily - why should spaghetti style be better suited for the design of a GUI? BTW, the layout demo doesn't include any graphics. I wonder what will be required to include graphics, in a way that produces a predictable look and behaviour in environments with different screen resolutions and text sizes. It's hard enough, with only text, to test a layout on such different environments, so that it's not acceptable to me when a GUI looks fine at the designer's site only, with an unknown appearance on other machines. DoDi _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
