On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 03:13:19PM +0200, Vojtěch Čihák wrote: > Hi, > > Delphi has no TGroupBox.Autosize but it has TPanel.AutoSize.
I really don't care about Delphi. If I did I would be using it. > When I put children on Panel, set very long Panel.Caption and > Panel.AutoSize:=True then panel shrinks to the smallest possible size > (around children) ignoring its own Caption. I haven't seen anyone use a Panel with a caption and children. The caption is useless for exactly the reason you point out. You can at least get around it by putting a label inside the panel. > So it seems more a feature than a bug to me. I have software that's translatable, I've set my TRadioGroup size manually (because AutoSize doesn't work) to accommodate the English translation. Now I change the translation to another language, but the caption is now longer, so it gets clipped. You call this a feature? My users don't agree with you. Now I need to manually calculate the minimum size of the control based on the length of the text in the current translation. I also need to factor in borders, themes, etc. That's exactly the type of problem that AutoSize sets out to solve, since all this information is already in the widget set. The same happens if the theme changes and the font size gets increased. Delphi has this massive design flaw because it's based on absolute positions and dimensions. Lazarus goes a long way to fix this by the AutoSize and anchoring mechanisms. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
