Dear all,
I have some problems with TDirectoryEdit, TFileNameEdit etc when I try to align them.
For example if I set align = alTop the edit is aligned and the button disappears. In the same way it seems that aligning and anchoring does not consider the button but only the edit.
Lazarus 0.9.29 r25796 FPC 2.4.0 i386-win32-win32/win64

andrea

This is so by design.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Paul Ishenin wrote

> disappears. In the same way it seems that aligning and anchoring does not > consider the button but only the edit. This is so by design.

Umm, last time I was told this is a bug. I think I even report it as such over a year ago. Even though it is a "composite" component (more that one component acting as one and is a single icon on palette bar), the designer should treat it as one component and alignment & anchoring should work as expected - like all other components. Delphi does this with composite components.

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Delphi does this with composite components.

We also checked how delphi works. And lazarus works as delphi here.

In delphi it is possible to use now an edit box with enbedded left and right buttons. This can be done in Lazarus too. At least I found how to do this for win32 and gtk2. But since the main goal now is to fix bugs not to create new I'd better wait with this component implementation for some time.

Anyway, if you want you can always place the editbutton to the panel and fix the layout problems.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Paul Ishenin wrote

Anyway, if you want you can always place the editbutton to the panel and fix the layout problems.

How can I use editbutton within panel if I want it to be aligned alClient?

Regards
?ilvinas

Try BorderSpacing.Right := 40

Luiz

Il 31/05/2010 20.24, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara ha scritto:

Try BorderSpacing.Right := 40

I already use a workaround in order to solve the align problem using anchors, I just would like to know if it is a known bug or if actually, as I understood, is it defined in this way by design. Anyway, thanks!

Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote

Try BorderSpacing.Right := 40

This does not help...

Regards
?ilvinas Ledas

What workaround did you use?

Regards
?ilvinas Ledas

Il 01/06/2010 21.01, ?ilvinas Ledas ha scritto:

What workaround did you use?

I did not use the align property but anchors, so I can decide by myself where I want to anchor the component.