[Lazarus] Disabling DoAllAutoSize in wincontrol.inc?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:30:58 +0200
Tobias Giesen <tobias_subscriber at tgtools.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> DoAllAutoSize is causing problems with some of my controls. It either
> hangs in infinite loops or raises exceptions. Can I disable it?

You can only delay it.
It is responsible for creating handles, layouting and turning
handles visible in the right order.
I started a list how other users created endless loops with the new
autosizing:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Autosize_/_Layout#I_get_an_infinite_loop_.2F_How_to_debug_autosizing.3F

If you get an exception, then you are doing something wrong.


> My controls worked fine with older LCL versions so I just want to work
> it like it used to.

Keep in mind, that the old autosize code had to work with buggy
widgetsets and therefore had to silently ignore some errors. Since
these bugs were fixed the new autosize can now raise an exception when
it spots an inconsistency or an endless loop.


Mattias