[Lazarus] Fitting a form around a grid

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> 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.

That's doable for the width, but what about rows where I believe there's 
less scope for per-row tweaking?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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