[Lazarus] Fitting a form around a grid

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
> It's obviously easy enough to fit a grid into the client space of a form 
> or panel, but how does one do the reverse?
> 
> The exact size of a grid (i.e. such that the outermost grid lines are 
> either displayed or not displayed predictably) depends on the widget 
> set, and possibly on other details such as fount metrics, screen DPI and 
> so on. At present I find myself applying "fudge factors" when shrinking 
> a form to be an exact fit around a grid of a predetermined number of 
> rows and columns, and that's still not entirely reliable when moving 
> between systems.
> 
> Is there a "correct" way of doing this?

If you don't want to calculate the exact amount, you can dimension the 
form sufficiently big, and adjust the columns to fill the form.

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