[Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

[Vincent Snijders]

Brian Prentice schreef:
> My point about showing the differences in the dialogs, one acceptable 
> and one clearly not acceptable, is that the solution seems to require 
> the construction of two dialogs one for OS X and one for WindowsXP.  
> Perhaps I'm wrong here but if I'm right this violates the Lazarus and 
> FPC goal of write once. I don't want to start a war here but as you 
> probably know Java has solved this problem nicely with layout managers.  

Lazarus solves this problem with autosizing and achors:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Autosize_/_Layout
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Anchor_Sides
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Anchor_Editor

Vincent