How can i make a window to shrink instead of losing its elements(buttons, labels) when it is being re-sized ?
(with losing i mean that a button which is placed at the Right-down- corner of a window will be invisible is the user shrinks the window from the Right-down- corner)

Thank you

kota kota wrote

How can i make a window to shrink instead of losing its elements(buttons, labels) when it is being re-sized ?

Use the Anchor property. By default the anTop and anLeft anchors are set on all components. If you used the UI Designer to visually design your form, then select the component (for example a Button), then in the Object Inspector windows click the Right and Botton anchor buttons and deselect (click them to toggle them) default Top and Left anchors.

The UI Designer writes the gui design into a method called AfterCreate() and it will look something like show below.

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  Button1 := TfpgButton.Create(self);
  with Button1 do
  begin
    Name := 'Button1';
    SetPosition(504, 420, 80, 24);
    Anchors := [anRight,anBottom];
    Text := 'Button';
    FontDesc := '#Label1';
    Hint := '';
    ImageName := '';
    TabOrder := 15;
  end;
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You can set the Anchors at design time and resize the design form to see what happens. For example, setting all four anchors, the component will grow and shrink as the form is resized.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Thank you very much.

2009/6/30 Graeme Geldenhuys