Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete
by eru on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:14AM
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> This wasn't a Delphi problem at all; it was a Windows problem because that was the convention on Windows at the time.
And I don't think other GUI systems were all that much better. Eg MacOS has plenty of fixed size stuff right now.
Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete
by lelanthran on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:56AM
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Yeah; my comment specifically called out Windows, but to be fair, all the GUI systems at the time had the same restrictions.
It was convention across all GUI systems.
Maybe, but Delphi had anchor fields that you could use to make everything resize nicely.
The problem with that time period was that most applications were designed to not be resizeable, including most of the ones that came with Windows itself.
We still have that - some of the Windows programs right now can't be resized (Thinking specifically of dialogs and windows for device manager->driver details, or explorer->options).
This wasn't a Delphi problem at all; it was a Windows problem because that was the convention on Windows at the time.[1]
[1] EDIT: s/Windows/GUI systems/g