[Lazarus] Align/Anchor to widest label

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

I would prefer that too, but unfortunately that is not my decision to 
make... :(

I was thinking about making an "invisible" bevel inbetween the 
edits/dropdown and labels, then anchor the edits/dropdown to the bevel 
and use code to calculate the place for the bevel.

-Torsten.

On 2015-03-25 12:21, Kiên Nguyễn Tiến Trung wrote:
> I prefer setting property Align to alTop. Although it is not so nice, 
> it brings me a huge advantage. There is no need to set anchors, so it 
> will be easy while adding/removing components. As a result, designing 
> time will be reduce considerably. Additionally, you will no longer 
> need to be worry about the appearance in different linguistic.
>
> It will look like this (http://i.imgur.com/vEhYjP4.png):
>
>
>
>
> 2015-03-25 17:20 GMT+07:00 Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com 
> <mailto:henry.vermaak at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:52:01AM +0100, Torsten Bonde
>     Christiansen wrote:
>     > Is it possible by using align, anchor, or some third option, to
>     > always make the two edits and the drop-down box align with the
>     > widest of the three labels.
>     >
>     > Since these labels will be translated to many languages I cannot
>     > assume that the 2nd labels is the widest, hence anchoring the
>     > filename edit to that label, and the drop-down and directory edit to
>     > the filename edit, will make the controls overlap eachother.
>
>     This has been quite a big problem for me, too.  The only solution I've
>     found is to use a container, like a frame or a panel, that has the
>     ChildSizing property.  Then you can set the
>     ChildSizing.ControlsPerLine
>     to 2 and the container will take care of making sure that
>     everything is
>     aligned, as long as you add the controls in the correct order, which
>     will depend on the ChildSizing.Layout setting.
>
>     The pain comes when you need to change the controls, because the child
>     sizing works on the order that the controls are added to the
>     container.
>     For this reason I usually do this in code.
>
>     Henry
>
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