Martin schrieb:
Either you need a special property editor, which opens for the Layouter, and allows you to add/remove controls. Or you have a Layouter property. IMHO the property would be fine in this case.
ACK. Like the Font property, the properties of the selected layouter can be edited in the OI as well. When in contrast the layout components are dropped into arbitrary places on the form, it's hard to find the component dedicated to a specific control.
Or am I missing a 3rd way?
We could have customized panels, for all the different layouts. But this feature is not applicable to forms, and it will be very hard to change the layout later, after a panel has been populated with child controls; then you'd also loose all other properties of the panel.
Eventually we need some more design modes, to disable automatic update of a form while editing layout details. I don't like the greedy attitude of alClient, when it comes to adding more controls around it.
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