[Lazarus] Docking manager implementation

Reenen Laurie rlaurie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 07:51:53 CET 2009


Yes!  Can we do that?

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>wrote:

> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
>
> > Percentages is often used in designing a layout. View some websites
> > HTML source or CSS files.  So why can't that be applied to "real" GUI
> > programming as well.
>
> Percentages are easy to implement, but hard to use. Too bad if a layout
> system doesn't offer some better method.
>
> Imagine a table, where all the column widths (in percents) have to be
> recalculated whenever a column is inserted or removed. Who should do
> that calculation, the user or the system?
>
> With proportional sizing one can have e.g. columns of width=1, double
> wide columns of width=2, and margins of width=0.1, and the layout
> manager will do the rest :-)
>
> DoDi
>
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