Yes! Can we do that? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <[email protected]>wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > > Percentages is often used in designing a layout. View some websites > > HTML source or CSS files. So why can't that be applied to "real" GUI > > programming as well. > > Percentages are easy to implement, but hard to use. Too bad if a layout > system doesn't offer some better method. > > Imagine a table, where all the column widths (in percents) have to be > recalculated whenever a column is inserted or removed. Who should do > that calculation, the user or the system? > > With proportional sizing one can have e.g. columns of width=1, double > wide columns of width=2, and margins of width=0.1, and the layout > manager will do the rest :-) > > DoDi > > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- o__ ,_.>/ _ (_)_\(_)_______ ...speed is good _______________ I believe five out of four people have a problem with fractions.
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