Re: [Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

I would prefer that too, but unfortunately that is not my decision to 
make... :(


I was thinking about making an "invisible" bevel inbetween the 
edits/dropdown and labels, then anchor the edits/dropdown to the bevel 
and use code to calculate the place for the bevel.


-Torsten.

On 2015-03-25 12:21, Kiên Nguyễn Tiến Trung wrote:
I prefer setting property Align to alTop. Although it is not so nice, 
it brings me a huge advantage. There is no need to set anchors, so it 
will be easy while adding/removing components. As a result, designing 
time will be reduce considerably. Additionally, you will no longer 
need to be worry about the appearance in different linguistic.


It will look like this (http://i.imgur.com/vEhYjP4.png):




2015-03-25 17:20 GMT+07:00 Henry Vermaak >:


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:52:01AM +0100, Torsten Bonde
Christiansen wrote:
> Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to
> always make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the
> widest of the three labels.
>
> Since these labels will be translated to many languages I cannot
> assume that the 2nd labels is the widest, hence anchoring the
> filename edit to that label, and the drop-down and directory edit to
> the filename edit, will make the controls overlap eachother.

This has been quite a big problem for me, too.  The only solution I've
found is to use a container, like a frame or a panel, that has the
ChildSizing property.  Then you can set the
ChildSizing.ControlsPerLine
to 2 and the container will take care of making sure that
everything is
aligned, as long as you add the controls in the correct order, which
will depend on the ChildSizing.Layout setting.

The pain comes when you need to change the controls, because the child
sizing works on the order that the controls are added to the
container.
For this reason I usually do this in code.

Henry

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Re: [Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

[Kiên Nguyễn Tiến Trung]

I prefer setting property Align to alTop. Although it is not so nice, it
brings me a huge advantage. There is no need to set anchors, so it will be
easy while adding/removing components. As a result, designing time will be
reduce considerably. Additionally, you will no longer need to be worry
about the appearance in different linguistic.

It will look like this (http://i.imgur.com/vEhYjP4.png):




2015-03-25 17:20 GMT+07:00 Henry Vermaak :

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:52:01AM +0100, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
> > Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to
> > always make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the
> > widest of the three labels.
> >
> > Since these labels will be translated to many languages I cannot
> > assume that the 2nd labels is the widest, hence anchoring the
> > filename edit to that label, and the drop-down and directory edit to
> > the filename edit, will make the controls overlap eachother.
>
> This has been quite a big problem for me, too.  The only solution I've
> found is to use a container, like a frame or a panel, that has the
> ChildSizing property.  Then you can set the ChildSizing.ControlsPerLine
> to 2 and the container will take care of making sure that everything is
> aligned, as long as you add the controls in the correct order, which
> will depend on the ChildSizing.Layout setting.
>
> The pain comes when you need to change the controls, because the child
> sizing works on the order that the controls are added to the container.
> For this reason I usually do this in code.
>
> Henry
>
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Re: [Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

[Henry Vermaak]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:52:01AM +0100, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
> Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to
> always make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the
> widest of the three labels.
> 
> Since these labels will be translated to many languages I cannot
> assume that the 2nd labels is the widest, hence anchoring the
> filename edit to that label, and the drop-down and directory edit to
> the filename edit, will make the controls overlap eachother.

This has been quite a big problem for me, too.  The only solution I've
found is to use a container, like a frame or a panel, that has the
ChildSizing property.  Then you can set the ChildSizing.ControlsPerLine
to 2 and the container will take care of making sure that everything is
aligned, as long as you add the controls in the correct order, which
will depend on the ChildSizing.Layout setting.

The pain comes when you need to change the controls, because the child
sizing works on the order that the controls are added to the container.
For this reason I usually do this in code.

Henry

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[Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

Hi.

Please look at the picture below:


Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to always 
make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the widest of the 
three labels.


Since these labels will be translated to many languages I cannot assume 
that the 2nd labels is the widest, hence anchoring the filename edit to 
that label, and the drop-down and directory edit to the filename edit, 
will make the controls overlap eachother.


Regards,
Torsten Bonde Christiansen.
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