[Lazarus] Align property confusion

[Dimitri Smits]

----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> schreef:

> 2010/10/4 Дмитрий Курашкин :
> > You need following:
> > 1. Drop additional panel (P3) on Form
> > 2. Make its border invisible and Aligh = alLeft
> > 3. Drop P2 on P3 and make P2.Aligh = alBottom
> > 4. Drop P1 on Form and make P1.Aligh = alRight
> >
> > As I know, it is the only way...
> 
> Thanks I tried that, but there is a minor correction. P3 must be
> alClient, not alLeft.
> 
> Now it looks like I wanted, but that's a really odd way of having to
> do it. I would think creation order, or the order in which you set
> Align would make a lot more sense - and reduce the amount of
> components (resources) required to accomplish the same result. I guess
> Borland was smoking something illegal the day they implemented the
> Align property. :-)
> 
> Thanks again for the response.
> 

I think it rather stems from the Windows world rather than Borland's bright minds. AFAIK it always was: horizontal takes precedence on vertical. So Top/Bottom fills entire width, Left/Right takes the remaining height, Client fill's the rest.

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits