Bernd Kreuss schrieb:
The splitter is *expected* to be positioned freely in the *middle* of
the form *between* other controls. This is intuitive. Gluing it
unmovable to one of the form borders by default until the user finds out
how to make it movable (or how the alternative strange old Delphi usage
is supposed to work) is not intuitve, IMHO.
So why should it be intuitive to add an splitter first, and to add the
splitted components later - provided that you don't forget to do so?
Many people find Align more intuitive than Anchors. Especially those
coming from Delphi or other frameworks.
You are confusing learned behavior with intuition and don't recognize it
anymore. This is a common problem in software development. What the
developer finds "intuitive" is in reality only what he knows how to do
because he is trained to do it.
To find out what is intuitive and what is counterintuitive there is *no*
way around *listening* to what unconditioned and unbiased users tell you
about *their* experience and by observing *their* usage patterns when
they are using it for the first time!
Please write up your ideas about intuitive GUI layouts, and compare
these to the established layout management procedures, as implemented in
e.g. in the Java, gtk2 or other layout managers.
The simplest and most stable layout is based on zones of vertical or
horizontal orientation. Every zone can be subdivided in zones
(components) of the opposite (horizontal or vertical) orientation (see
DockTree. Every zone can have one dynamically sized component
(alClient), all others have fixed sizes.
DoDi
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