[Lazarus] Default values for Top coordinate offsets for components in a visual container

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 09/09/2010 11:35, Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I partly solved 2 old issues
>   #942: Mis-Aligned components within GroupBox
> and
>   #7671: Components within GroupBoxes are displaced
> 
> by implementing Top coordinate offset with user defined values in Delphi 
> converter.
> 
> The value is defined separately for each container type (currently TGroupBox 
> and TPanel). I can implement the left coordinate later.
> A runtime solution would be needed if the same .dfm form is used in both 
> Delphi and Lazarus. I will see that later.
> 
> Now I would need some good default values for Top and Left offsets. I know they 
> depend on widgetset and theme but the user can change them if the default is 
> not good for him. Now there is:
>   TGroupBox.Top + 10
>   TPanel.Top + 2
> Taken from my hat without measuring much anything.
> 

Isn't +10 the GroupBox's label/caption height in pixels ?

and the +2, something to do with the bezel or the line-around-groupbox width ?

L.

> Juha
> 
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