On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:19:24 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I have something like a frame containing a wizard-style notebook, or > for that matter something like a DB-aware grid tailored to its content, > is there a portable way to fit a form or some other container around it? Put frame on a form and set the form's AutoSize to true. > The problem seems to be that each OS or widget set has a different > amount of "furniture" between its declared dimensions and its client space. Note: A TFrame does not have any furniture. Window size is Client size on all platforms. > The particular case that I'm thinking of is a modal form I've knocked > together to get database login information. This is a notebook which > allows the server, port number, SSL mode, schema/table identifier etc. > to be collected, as well as the standard username and password. But it > would also be useful to be able to embed two of these into something > (i.e. one for a local database and one for an upstream one), which > suggests that redoing it as a frame would be a worthwhile approach > /provided/ that a container could be fitted trivially around it without > having to maintain conditional "fudge factors". Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
