VP Studio Shell - control alignment

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VP Studio shell supported controls have automatic alignment property, which programmer can define interactively. No programming is required for automatic control alignment in compiled application.

VP Studio Shell supports the following options for automatic alignment:

• Align to parent Bottom

• Align to parent Right

• Align to parent Right Bottom

• Fit to Parent

• Center Horizontally

• Center Vertically

• Center Inside Parent

• No alignment

• Stick to parent Left Bottom

• Stick to parent Bottom

• Stick To parent Right Bottom

Simply double click on VP Studio Shell control and define control alignment from the list.

How does it work?

VP Studio Shell support code provides auto-align functionality, which is you can find similar to the Delphi development environment.

As an interface designer, you simply need to define control properties using VP Studio Shell Object explorer. Automatic alignment will be done by code inside SYSTEM OBJECT

Note:

The automatic control alignment requires window, which has controls with auto-align properties, to have SYSTEM OBJECT created on e_create event:

%BEGIN Colred Editor, e_Create

win_colred_editor_eh(_Win,e_Create(_),0):-!,

SysObject = system_object::new(_Win),

.....

This code guarantees auto-align functionality of VP Studio Shell controls.

Click here for Auto-alignment samples

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Last Updated: May 31, 2002