Darren New wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: >> It's nowhere near as easy as Visual Basic or Delphi. > > I will say that Tk (as in Tcl/Tk) is almost as easy as Visual Basic, > with many of the same kinds of things built in. It's hard to find a good > layout manager, because you don't do things that way - things float > around and adjust themselves to window size and content much more. (In > the same sense that it's hard to find a good layout manager for HTML and > CSS.) I was amused when I saw the announcement that VB had come out > with this concept of "anchor" that lets the layout change when you > resize the window - what a concept!
Indeed. Delphi was lacking in that regard for quite a while also, but given the roots in Windows 3.1 development it's understandable. Delphi and Lazarus now have flexible layout managers similar to many of Java's layout managers. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
