On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:23:15 +0100 Jürgen Hestermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > >> but what strikes me is that horizontal > >> and vertical borders seem > >> to be treated differently. Is there a reason for this? > > Why do you think so? > > Well, at first the documentation only mentions horizontal borders to be > the maximum of both elements but nothing that this also applies to > vertical borders. It says: > ------------------------------- > The horizontal space between two controls (LeftControl, RightControl on > Parent) is the maximum of ... > ------------------------------- > But no words about the vertical alignment. I added it analog. > And second that was my experience too. But I just tried it again on a > fresh project and now suddenly vertical alignment behave the same! This > "eratic" (unpredictable, at least to me) behaviour was the reason I > wanted to look into the documentation but it did not make it clearer but > more obscure. It seems I have to invest much more time into this than I > wanted... There is only one difference between vertical and horizontal and that is Delphi compatible: Align applies alTop and alBottom before alLeft and alRight. Some widgets may override default rules. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
