Childsizing - how to rearrange components

[Dibo]

Hi,

I have panel with:
Pane1.ChildSizing.ControlsPerLine := 1;
Pane1.ChildSizing.Layout := cclTopToBottomThenLeftToRight;

... and some buttons on this panel. How can I change button positions on runtime?

Regards.

[w click]

Buttons all have a top and left as well as a width and height, so:-

with button6 do begin
   top:=top-1;
   left:=left+1;
   width:=width+1;
   height:=height+1;
end;

So clicking button6 makes it taller, fatter and move slowly North East.  You could make it top:=5; left:=5; to move it to the top left position.

[Dibo]

Yes, but it seems like "Childsizing" blocking Left and Top

[DirkS]

Yes, but it seems like "Childsizing" blocking Left and Top

I think that's because of your Layout setting. You can either set Childsizing.xxxSpacing settings to adjust the location of buttons or do everything by hand by setting ChildSizing.Layout to cclNone.

Gr.
Dirk.

[Martin_fr]

I don't think there is a convenient way...

it is kind of bound to creation order, more specific the order elements have in the parents list of child-controls.

Therefore changing the parent of any of your buttons, away and back to the container, will move that button to the last position.

In design you can drag and drop the child-controls in the tree-view of the object inspector.

--
Not tested, but at runtime

ButtonX.Parent := nil;
ButtonX.Parent := Container;

to move it to last position...