Zitat von Juha Manninen <[email protected]>:
On tiistai, 15. joulukuuta 2009 12:03:03 Mattias Gaertner wrote:
JoshyFun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Controls are being moved quite sure because they are anchored ones to
> others, maybe you must remove all anchors (to other objects) while you
> design.
Maybe Juha has not yet spotted the anchor editor?
What anchor editor? Ah, that one! I was looking at it some time ago and
wondered what it does. Delphi doesn't have such, or does it? At least I never
used one. It seems to be very powerful now that I learned it. Great!
Delphi does not have it.
But I have complaints (again), too. The anchors (set of booleans) in object
inspector map directly to anchor editor window settings. However there is no
indication of which control the selected one is anchored to. I though it is
anchored to the parent control, but no.
If no anchor controls are set the Anchors work Delphi compatible and
the object inspector makes sense.
I suggest removing the set of booleans from object inspector's anchors and
instead have a button there which opens the anchor editor. (A button like
Listbox.Items has).
?
Anchors has this button since the anchor editor exists.
This would be a deviation from Delphi but who cares.
Now it is misleading and duplicate. I know, it is a small thing once you know
it but an intuitive GUI is still an important goal, IMO.
Many properties depend on others.
If we would hide all properties that might confuse users there would
not be many left in the OI.
I was able to fix all the small alignment problems.
JoshyFun: the Radiogroup alignment problem was due to BorderSpace settings.
About colors:
Don't mix fixed colors and themed colors.
You can use fixed text color on fixed background or theme color on
theme background, but not fixed color on theme background.
Is themed color such as clWindowText and clCaptionText?
Yes
And fixed color is like clMaroon which I used for text, or how?
Yes
By theme background you mean the actual control's color property, right?
It depends.
Or, is there some hidden setting for themes somewhere?
Well, there are lots of theme settings hidden to LCL apps.
Mattias
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