Sytze de Boer wrote: > It's a shame we have to ask this question. > VFP version 11 surely would have had a feature where a proper sizing routine > would have been built in. > I have tried a number of "sizer" downloads from various fox sites and they > simply do not work "smoothly". Now, I'm not criticising any ones efforts > here, but I would really love to hear/see of one that works, so this > question does not need to be asked. i.e. your system shrinks/expands as > required.
I think the current state of the art in the Windows world is using anchors. I always just did it manually with lots of code (we have this width, and this control stays a fixed width while this one can grow, etc.). It doesn't help you, but I think wxWidgets (the lib Dabo uses) has it right with sizers. They are a hierarchical tree (each sizer can contain objects and/or other sizers). Each sizer handles either horizontal or vertical. The sizer hierarchy is completely separate from the object relationship hierarchy. It takes minimal code to set up, and the sizers take care of control sizes and positions for you, which is extra important when dealing with multiple platforms (the font size on Mac can be quite different than that on Windows, requiring more space to be allocated to the label, etc.) and multiple locales (the translated string in Italian or German may be 3 times as long as the English, requiring more room). Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
