Hi,

Is this by design or a bug? I experienced the same problem when I tried to improve the component alignment in the IDE Build Dialog. Any component that include a button: TDateEdit, TFileNameEdit, TDirectoryEdit, ... has this problem.

* In the form designer, the button part is not selected when you click and resize the component.

* You can never achieve the green alignment line on the right side of the components, because the button part is not part of the selected component.

* When you do alignment to other components, the button part is not taken into account, so you cannot use the advanced alignment options.

See the attached screenshot which highlights both problems? Must I report this as a bug in Mantis? I'm using the latest trunk revision.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Is this by design or a bug? I experienced the same problem when I tried to improve the component alignment in the IDE Build Dialog. Any component that include a button: TDateEdit, TFileNameEdit, TDirectoryEdit, ... has this problem.

I also experienced problems with TToolButtons. When a form is docked, the toolbuttons do not retain their size. This happens with win32, not with gtk2. Maybe a related problem?

DoDi

Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys :

Put TDateEdit into a TPanel.

Mattias

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote

Maybe a related problem?

I'm not sure. My issue is in the Form Designer, when I try and align those components with other components (auto setting the width property).

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Zitat von Hans-Peter Diettrich :

Unlikely.
TDateEdit are two controls, but Graeme wants to align/anchor them as one. When TDateEdit was written the LCL autosizing was not as flexible as it is nowadays.
Maybe it is time to rewrite TDateEdit and friends using a TCustomPanel.

Please create an example/bug report for the tool buttons.

Mattias

Mattias G?rtner wrote

Put TDateEdit into a TPanel.

Surely that is not the recommended usage for *all* button edit based components? If so, why not simply fix the component to have an embedded panel (as you suggest) without the developer having to do that manually. Resource count would be the same either way, but the latter would be much easier to work with. Or fix the Form Designer, to take the button into account when it shows the grab handles or does width alignment against other components.

So is this going to be an issue with all composite based components? For example, in tiOPF there are some custom GUI components that are all composite components. Meaning, it is a few components working together as one: Double selection listbox, advanced date range which uses radio buttons as well, etc... So alignment or selection in Form Designer will fail on all those, unless I manually embed them in another TPanel. Sounds more like a bug in Lazarus, because Delphi's Form Designer handles composite components as one large component.

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys :

The designer just shows what is there. TDateEdit is currently two controls. Patches are welcome to make it a true composite control. A bug report is welcome too.

Mattias

Please create an example/bug report for the tool buttons.

ID 14061

DoDi