Alignment facilities
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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ezlage · 2012-10-16 11:50

Fields like "Top", "Left", "Width" and "Height" should accept simple
calculations for alignment purpose (in design-time).

(Example)
Top: 5+50+10
(where number 5 is the space between an object and the form's border,
50 is the Height of a upper object, and 10 the default space between
objects)

If possible to use properties of another object, much better! (This
way, objects will automatically repositioned if I resize another
object)
This way: Top: borderspace+Object1.Height+spacebtwobjs

Regards.

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User137 · 2012-10-16 12:15

You have Anchors property too. It won't act based on other objects in
same framespace, but it does with containers and form itself. You can
put your "aligned" objects in a panel and then just move the panel
(hide panel borders if need to). Or simply select all and move
together.

Other thing is, that if you have more than 10 objects with same
alignment, you should consider creating them manually at runtime, or
use some sort of grid object.

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Leledumbo · 2012-10-17 16:08

this should be what you're looking for:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Autosize_/_Layout

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ezlage · 2012-10-20 14:05

User137 and Leledumbo,  thank you!

The anchors will be helpful!

Regards.