Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:49:25 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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.
Thanks, I'll experiment. Is that specifically a form property or is it
possible to do the same for e.g. a page control or a panel?
TPanel, yes.
TPageControl, no.
Thanks. Panel and form are probably the major cases. [Pokes IDE] I
suppose the length of a bevel as well but I presume that everything
reasonable can be handled by alignment.
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.
In the case of a TFrame, yes. But I was thinking of the form case where
there are- if my experience is reliable- significant differences between
the Windows and X way of doing things.
Yes. I guess there are still some window managers, where form.autosize
does not work well.
But the other way round - autosizing the content - works always.
Yes, that I'm used to. But I've asked about "shrink-fitting" a form a
couple of times over the last two or three years without a definite
response- presumably the implementation's improving.
If it works well with gtk and adequately with Windows I'll be entirely
happy.
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