A few things in the VCL you might not have seen or heard of.
31 Oct
Here’s a Camtasia demo of a few things in the VCL that you might not know about or have taken a look at before.
Those things are:
- VCL Guidelines and Margins – makes laying out your forms ten times easier
- The Margin and AlignWithMargins properties — allow to provide proper spacing between your controls
- The SnapBuffer and ScreenSnap properties — they allow you to get your app to “snap“ to the edges of the screen
Pretty cool features in both VCL for Win32 and VCL.Net. These are available in BDS2006 and the Turbo Delphi Professional (Win32 and .Net)
Was "AlignWithMargins" introduced in BDS 2006?
October 31st, 2006 at 6:04 pmI found it 2 weeks ago (after using the 2006 version for almost a year now), and I love it.
I cant live with myself if it this has been around for years.
Magnus –
No, you are safe. It is new in BDS2006.
Nick
October 31st, 2006 at 6:05 pmRR
October 31st, 2006 at 11:46 pmSheesh, I feel like Rodney Dangerfield, no credit.
Btw, I blogged about this as a follow to the post on about.com which you can read here:
http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/VCLFormsThatSnapToTheEdgeOfTheScreen.aspx
-Steve
November 1st, 2006 at 12:44 amTheres quite a lot that you will not have seen if you only look at the turboexplorer.com site and do not know about BDN. The TE pages haven’t changed much for a while. How about some code - demos - examples etc. to get people started on their projects? You could include some selected links to code central (for some of the less dull items with source). How about some Articles - there is a menu item on the /delphi page that is not linked to anything. There is a load of stuff on BDNtv that could be linked to from turboexplorer.com and add real guts to the site. PS are we getting a Delphi hour today?
November 1st, 2006 at 10:23 amFine. Let’s continue….
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:36 amGuidlines are YAUF - Yet Another Undocumented Feature(otherwise known as the entire IDE OpenTools API - if you want us to support this stuff, please don’t keep making us guess. This has been a LONG standing complaint that has never been taken seriously).
Some docs on creating custom guildline info
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:35 pmfor custom components would be nice.
Will you zip it for download?
November 7th, 2006 at 9:21 amBill –
Sure:
http://bdntv.borland.com/pix/nickhodges/Camtasia/SnapMargins/SnapMargins.zip
Nick
November 7th, 2006 at 9:28 amThat’s great, thanks!
November 7th, 2006 at 11:10 am