[Lazarus] Autosize behaviour

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:

>>> I would be very surprised to see more than 4 layouters on a form.
>>> Most forms will have a single TTableLayout or TBorderLayout 
>>> component, and that's it.
>>
>> How do you know?
> 
> Simple experience.

AFAIR the IDE is a counter example.

> Most controls will not have a need for a layouter, but
> can rely on the default behaviour (absolute positioning), for which no
> layouter is needed.

This case is trivial.

> In the few cases that I needed a "layout", it was borderlayout: a grid 
> which is 'alClient', and a panel with Align=pbottom (in borderlayout speak:
> grid is center region, panel is south region).

That's the standard (Delphi) layouter as well.

> Inside the panel the controls are arranged using table layout.
> So: 2 layouters.

Other application forms (settings dialogs...) contain many more 
controls, within multiple containers with specific layouts.

>>>> Not to mention prefabricated controls, e.g. with horizontal or 
>>>> vertical layout.
>>>
>>> I don't understand what you mean here.
>>
>> Many widgetsets support controls for specific layouts. Shouldn't 
>> Lazarus try to use just these controls?
> 
> Sorry, but I still don't understand :( Please give an example ?

Look at the gtk2 widgetset.

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