Auto-alignment of TLabels and TEdits - and anything else

[WickedDum]

I saw items being dropped in (a TPanel?) and they were auto-aligning.  I created a TPanel but cannot seem to get it working.  Auto-alignment seems a lot easier than trying to get them lined up manually!

How do I do that?

Thank you!!

[lainz]

You created 2 themes with the same content 
The other is here
http://forum.lazarus-ide.org/index.php/topic,34000.msg221667/topicseen.html#new

[WickedDum]

I noticed.  I couldn't delete it...sorry.

[WickedDum]

Thank you for the child-sizing!!!

Here is a print screen.  I was trying different things and got a few labels out of order.  How do I insert them correctly?

Thanks!!

[lainz]

Im not with lazarus right now but try controls per line 1 and align top to bottom, in childsizing of panel.

[Angus]

Hi
Select the controls using the shift key and the LH mouse button.  With the mouse cursor over one of the selected controls RH mouse click and select 'Align...'.  This will pop up a window with various options.  You will need to get your controls in roughly the right order before doing this, however once you have an order of your liking you just let the IDE do the rest.
You may also consider View>Anchor Editor to manage the placement of controls on the form during run time. This latter functionality is a considerable improvement over the Delphi XE5 IDE btw.

[lainz]

That's ok. But the main advantage of childsizing is that will work with any font size and no re-align is required. Is automatic.

Edit: Attached picture with the settings and the result.

If you get some out of order change the Z order of labels.

[WickedDum]

I've toiled with this thing for hours today.  I know I have to be patient with something new, but some of these properties changed by themselves!!! 

What file contains the numbers/text of the form data?  (The file that contains the locations and configurations of the controls.)  I'll do this old-school!

Thanks!!

[lainz]

I've toiled with this thing for hours today.  I know I have to be patient with something new, but some of these properties changed by themselves!!! 

What file contains the numbers/text of the form data?  (The file that contains the locations and configurations of the controls.)  I'll do this old-school!

Thanks!!

The lfm file. Please learn how to use it, once you master it will never use other solution. 

[WickedDum]

Understand.  But right now I need to move past this frustration to feel that I accomplished something today!

If I modify the lfm file, will it carry over to the other files, too?  In other words, will modifying the lfm file give em the results I want?

Thanks!!

[lainz]

The lfm is the form itself, if you change the numbers or something from it, it will change like you change the form with the editor.

Do it with care since you can broke that file and the form maybe can't be loaded again.

So better use the method of aligning that Angus said if you prefer.