Auto resizing of components at design time

[Andrew jackson]

I've been looking at the Resource Explorer example application that comes
with Delphi 2.01. It seems that if you resize the main form at design
time, the other components on the form (a tree view, list view etc) are
automatically re-sized to fill the form. The same things happens at
runtime - i.e. re-sizing of the components happens automatically, there
doesn't appear to be any explicit code involved. Does anybody know how
this works?

[Ray Lischner]

On 11 Dec 1996 16:37:12 GMT, "Andrew jackson"
<ajac...@cccgroup.co.uk> wrote:

When a control (including a form) resizes, it calls AlignControls to
realign its controls. A control sets its Align property to be
realigned. It's a crude mechanism, but it works well for simple cases.
--
Ray Lischner, Tempest Software, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Author of Secrets of Delphi 2 (http://www.tempest-sw.com/secrets/)

[Chami]

- pick the control you want to resize
- set it's "Align" property to "alClient"

for example, let's say you have three controls called A, B, and C. if you
want A to resize to fill the extra space:

A.Align := alClient;
B.Align := alBottom; { or alTop, alLeft, alRight }
C.Align := alBottom; { or alTop, alLeft, alRight }

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