[DUG] Form Resizing

[Alister Christie]

Dang, I thought I had finished with form resizing - forgot about ScaleBy 
- are there any others that I have neglected?

You'll probably use all the techniques.  For a long time I never used 
anchors and I can't properly explain why - I just didn't know they were 
there and for awhile and then I felt they were buggy (I think they were 
introduced in Delphi 4).  I've never used margins in an application - 
although I probably will now that I made that movie (it's amazing what 
you learn when you try to explain something).

I think knowing when to use them just comes from experience, you can 
pretty much achieve the same things with each - just in some instances 
it's easier to use align, in others anchors are easier.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
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John Bird wrote:
> Watched one of Alistair Christie's online videos on form resizing.  Great,
> and Thanks - I learnt a new IDE trick: you can change properties on more
> than one control at once by selecting several (and I thought that was only
> to move them as a group - doh!)
>
> Question - there are several ways to resize forms for different screen
> sizes, including
>
> Form.scaleby  
> Or using align and margins,
> Or by using anchors and constraints
>
> Which do users use and merits of each?
>
> (I often use form.scaleby for automatic sizing of form to users screen -
> works well - means users do not have to resize a form usually.  I am
> assuming the align/margins etc are mainly useful for users manually resizing
> a form - when to use which is the question.  Alistair suggested anchors for
> simpler forms and align more generally flexible.)
>
>
> John
>
>
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