Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete

Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by eru on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:14AM (#43468290)

> 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.

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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by lelanthran on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:56AM (#43468458)

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.

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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by silon42 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:03AM (#43469259)

No... Motif/CDE had resizable/constraint layout in early 90's

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