is there any way, not that complicated to wrap the components of a FlowPanel for instance every 3 components?
as it works with the property autowrap but by a given amount of controls.
thanks in advance.
You left the actual image sizes open, so here its the general idea with some example sizes that you will have to adopt to your liking. I made some initial tests with buttons (normal width = 75), so I sized the TFlowPanel to 235 px wide.
The idea is to have a TFlowPanel with a fixed width (Constraints.MaxWidth = 235; Constraints.MinWidth = 235;) but AutoSize=True so it can grow downward. If you add e.g. 75px wide components, 3 of them fit perfectly on one row. If wider, only 2 or even only 1 fit on a row. So far as you wish. But if the width is only 56px (mean value) or less the number of compnents will be four or more.
I suggest a solution to place such a smaller component on a panel of its own, with a width of 75px, and that panel on the TFlowPanel. Thus no more than three components will fit on one row.
This is the code with which a number of buttons were placed on a TFlowPanel.
procedure TForm3.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
btn: TButton;
pan: TPanel;
begin
inc(count);
btn := TButton.Create(self);
btn.Width := random(60)+35;
if btn.Width < 75 then
begin
pan := TPanel.Create(self);
pan.Width := 75;
pan.Height := 30;
pan.BevelOuter := bvNone;
btn.Parent := pan;
pan.Parent := FlowPanel1;
end
else
begin
btn.Parent := FlowPanel1;
end;
btn.Caption := IntToStr(count);
end;
And the end result
Alternative solution
Another solution (since you mentioned TImages) is to always create the TImages with a width of at least 75px. The picture (if smaller than that) can be centered in the TImage, if you like. This is based on the fact that the image doesn't affect the size of the TImage control (unless you want it to).
Also, if you don't really absolutely need to show the images in their full actual size, you can set the Proportional property true. From the docs:
When Proportional is true, images that are too large to fit in the image control are scaled down (while maintaining the same aspect ratio) until they fit in the image control.
Related
I am new to Delphi creating runtime Tgrid and want to add some rows and columns. I googled but not getting any thing. i am at level zero. what i have tried i mentioned it below.This code is showing nothing on my form.
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
Grid : TGrid;
begin
Grid := TGrid.Create(Form1);
Grid.Visible := True;
Grid.Margins.Left := 10;
Grid.Margins.Right := 10;
Grid.Margins.Top := 10;
Grid.Margins.Bottom := 10;
Grid.RowCount := 5;
end;
The grid control must have a parent control. Indeed, naturally, the system must know where (on the screen) to put your control!
You probably want the grid to have the form as its parent. If so, just add Grid.Parent := Form1; after the construction of the grid.
Of course, when you add this missing line of code and get to see the grid, you'll very soon notice that your Margins assignments have no effect. That's because by default you control the position of the control (no pun intended) manually using its Top, Left, Height, and Width properties.
But should you start experimenting with the Align property, you'll discover the effect of the margins, if you also set AlignWithMargins to True. For instance, if you set Align to alClient, the control will occupy all of its parent's client area, save the margins.
I have a TDBRadioGroup that I've added to my form.
I'd really like to have the caption to the left of it instead of on top (the form's a little busy and tall, and I'm trying to squeeze it in).
I can add my own label to the left of the Radio Group. But the control insists on reserving space of a Caption that does not exists. Is there a way I can turn it off completely?
The best we've come up with so far is sticking it on a TPanel and then hiding the top couple lines off-panel.
A TGroupBox (and it's descendant TDBGroupBox) are basically wrappers around the Windows GroupBox. The control is designed to sport a user-defined label across the upper-left corner, and doesn't have any style setting to remove it.
So, short of creating your own control to host a series of TRadioButton controls yourself and display them, there's no built-in way to disable the space reserved for the caption. You can suppress the text, of course, by setting the Caption := '', but the padding for the text descenders is not removed simply because the caption isn't displayed.
You can override the paint procedure for TRadioGroup so that the frame is drawn closer to the top of your item list. You could create a new component of type TNoCaptionRadioGroup. You might still have to use the panel trick that you have tried, but by lowering the top of the frame you can grab the space consumed by the non-existent caption. Something like this:
tNoCaptionRadioBox = class(TRadioGroup)
protected
procedure paint; override;
end;
procedure tNoCaptionRadioBox.paint;
var
H: Integer;
R: TRect;
begin
with Canvas do
begin
Font := Self.Font;
H := TextHeight('0');
R := Rect(0, H, Width, Height);
if Ctl3D then
begin
Inc(R.Left);
Inc(R.Top);
Brush.Color := clBtnHighlight;
FrameRect(R);
OffsetRect(R, -1, -1);
Brush.Color := clBtnShadow;
end else
Brush.Color := clWindowFrame;
FrameRect(R);
end;
end;
This is taken from the code for painting a TCustomGroupBox. I have removed the code for drawing the caption and have changed the top of the frame to the full height of the Font. Your actual captioned radio buttons will still be drawn where Windows wants them to be and with the default spacing.
Remember to register the new component by running the package installation tool.
procedure Register;
begin
RegisterComponents('myComponents', [tNoCaptionRadioBox]);
end;
Firstly sorry if this has come up before but I am struggling to find anything on the matter.
I'm trying to add a number of TImage's to a scrollbox which is meant to hold the images and allow the user to scroll across them. This creation is done in run time.
The images are stored in an array of TImage.
Below is the code I have to create the images.
procedure TfrmMain.CreateSolutionImages(ImageCount: Integer);
var
I: Integer;
ImageScale: double;
begin
if sbSolutionImages.ComponentCount > 0 then //destroy the images already in the scrollbox
sbSolutionImages.DestroyComponents;
SetLength(SolutionImages,0); //clear the array of images
SetLength(SolutionImages,ImageCount); //SolutionImages is an array of timage
ImageScale:= ((sbSolutionImages.Width - 20)/Guillotine.StockWidth);
for I := 0 to ImageCount - 1 do
begin
if not Assigned(SolutionImages[I]) then //if not assigned then create and set the parent to the scrollbox
begin
SolutionImages[I]:= TImage.Create(sbSolutionImages);
SolutionImages[I].Parent:= sbSolutionImages;
SolutionImages[I].Width:= trunc(Guillotine.StockWidth * ImageScale); //set image dimentions and positions
SolutionImages[I].Height:= trunc(Guillotine.StockHeight * ImageScale);
SolutionImages[I].Position.X:= 10;
if I = 0 then
begin
SolutionImages[I].Position.Y:= 10;
end
else
begin
SolutionImages[I].Position.Y:= SolutionImages[I-1].Position.Y + SolutionImages[I-1].Height + 20;
end;
end;
//forgot to include these lines
SolutionImages[I].Bitmap.SetSize(Round(SolutionImages[I].Width),Round(SolutionImages[I].Height));
SolutionImages[I].Bitmap.Clear(TAlphaColors.White);
end;
end;
What is happening is that the scrollbox (sbSolutionImages) is reporting that it contains the images, i.e. componentcount increases, however it is not drawing the images and no scrollbars appear, which should logically happen as some of the images won't be in the viewable region.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Add a TLayout as a child of the TScrollBox.
Set the Width and Height as appropriate (and set Position=(0,0)).
Add your images as children on the TLayout.
The TScrollBox will then know the bounds of the TLayout and will set it's scroll bars based on this.
Ok sorry. It was a simple stupid issue.
I forgot to set the sizes on the bitmaps of all the images.
Still within the for loop I needed to add.
SolutionImages[I].Bitmap.SetSize(Round(SolutionImages[I].Width),Round(SolutionImages[I].Height));
SolutionImages[I].Clear(TAlphaColors.White);
Ok so it appears that I am still having a problem. The scrollbars are not coming up and trying to the resize the scrollbox (I have a slider between two panels, one is the parent of the scrollbox and the other holds other components) either does nothing (nothing moves) or causes the slider to shoot off the screen to the left, thus hiding everything "off" the application window.
As I am not familiar with firemonkey, this is boggling. I could've done this easily in VCL however we are trying to explore the "acclaimed power" of firemonkey.
I need to find the entire size (also called "logical area") of a TScrollBox - as opposite to visible area that you get via Width and Height property (or ClientWidth ClientHeight).
I want to create some controls inside that TScrollBox. One of them (called TViewer) needs to be as high as the TScrollBox itself. The thing is that during creation, the TScrollBox is scrolled down to show last created control. So, using Top=1 will not work because my control will have top=1 which is not the top of the logical area.
Delphi 7
Drop a component, like a TLabel, on the TScrollBox.
Set the component's Left and Top properties to 0.
Set the component's Visible property to False.
Now you always have the origin. The "logical height" is now:
myScrollBox.Height + (myOriginControl.Top * -1);
Maybe ScrollBox.HorzScrollBar.Range and ScrollBox.VertScrollBar.Range + the corresponding .Positions are what you need.
Look at Scrollbars:
ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Range
ScrollBox1.HorzScrollBar.Range
It can be less than height and width if the scrollbox logical area is not bigger than phisical area (scrollbars not visible in that case)
Or use this to get the max of both:
var
AHeight, AWidth: Integer;
begin
AHeight := Max(ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Range, ScrollBox1.Height);
AWidth := Max(ScrollBox1.HorzScrollBar.Range, ScrollBox1.Width);
ShowMessageFmt('%d,%d', [AHeight, AWidth]);
end;
Edit
From #Altar comments, I can add the logical height and/or width is not the problem. If you want to add any control which occupies all the height of the scrollbar, use the AHeight from the above calculation, but set the Top to the negative of VertScrollBar.Position, something like this:
procedure TForm2.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
var
AHeight, AWidth: Integer;
Btn: TButton;
begin
AHeight := Max(ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Range, Height);
AWidth := Max(ScrollBox1.HorzScrollBar.Range, Width);
Btn := TButton.Create(Self);
Btn.Parent := ScrollBox1;
Btn.Left := 15;
Btn.Top := -ScrollBox1.VertScrollBar.Position;
Btn.Height := AHeight;
end;
Im not sure i understand exactly what you want to do, but to get the complete area defined as "scrollable" you would have to write ScrollBox.HorScrollBar.Range + ScrollBox.Clientwidth (and the same thing for the vertical section). The scrollbox always deducts the visible "page" size from the total. So if you define a height of 1000 pixels, with 100 pixels showing - it will have a scrolling range of 900. You have to add the clientheight to get the rest.
Also, to get the correct "top" position you will have to read Canvas.Cliprect.Top, since a scrolling window does not change the top position of sub-controls. Windows handles this for you and only tells you what to re-draw once the scrollbars are initialized.
Since you want to create a control that is just as high as the complete scrollable area, i presume you are creating an editor of sorts?
If so you would probably get better results taking a look at SynEdit and extract the base-class that adds scrollbars to a normal TCustomControl (it's quite easy). That way you can control both the painting and the layout of your controls.
Here is one I wrote for Lazarus and FreePascal a while back. If you add messages to the uses clause and prefix the message handlers with WM rather than TLM it will compile under Delphi.
(code to long, had to use external link): http://delphimax.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/platform-independent-image-component-for-lazarus/
I have tried to do that, and believe me, I was not able to.
If you have the instances of the controls that are inside TScrollBox, you can use them to calculate (not precisely) the area.
Here is a complicated (but complete) solution:
I create my first child control during TScrollBox.Create (when TScrollBox does not have yet a scrollbar)
Set Child.Top:= 1
Create the rest of the child controls (this may force the TScrollBox to show the scrollbar)
Scroll the TScrollBox up
Use one of the above solutions to calculate the height of the TScrollBox
I have an input edit field where the user can enter data. I want the box width to be at least 191px (min) and maximum 450px (max).
procedure THauptform.edtEingabeChange(Sender: TObject);
begin
// Scale
if Length(edtEingabe.Text) > 8 then
begin
if Hauptform.Width <= 450 then
begin
verschiebung := verschiebung + 9;
// The initial values like 'oldedtEingabeWidth' are global vars.
edtEingabe.Width := oldedtEingabeWidth + verschiebung;
buDo.Left := oldbuDoLeft + verschiebung;
Hauptform.Width := oldHauptformWidth + verschiebung;
end;
end;
end;
This works for ENTERING text. But when I delete one char, it does not scale back accordingly.
In your code, nothing will happen when your text is less than 8 characters long.
Also, I don't see any condition under which your width becomes smaller. It only becomes larger (by 9) with each iteration.
By the way, you appear to be multiplying by 9 as an average character width. You can use Canvas.TextWidth to determine the actual width required by the text without estimating.
If you want to use "9" anyway, you should name it as a constant to make clear what it is.
Quick and dirty using TextWidth:
const
MAX_EINGABE_WIDTH = 450;
MIN_EINGABE_WIDTH = 191;
procedure THauptform.edtEingabeChange(Sender: TObject);
var Width: Integer;
begin
// Scale
Width := edtEingabe.Canvas.TextWidth(edtEingabe.Text);
if Width > MAX_EINGABE_WIDTH then
Width := MAX_EINGABE_WIDTH
else if Width < MIN_EINGABE_WIDTH then
Width := MIN_EINGABE_WIDTH
edtEingabe.Width := Width;
end;
You're just adding 9 everytime the text changes and the length is grater than 8 - regardless of the change. You need to make it a function based on the length instead.
Something like this would do the trick:
procedure THauptform.edtEingabeChange(Sender: TObject);
var
len: integer;
additionalWidth: integer;
begin
len := Length(edtEingabe.Text);
if len <=8 then
additionalWidth:=0
else
additionalWidth:=(len-8)*9; //Assuming we need an extra 9 pixels per character after the 8th one
if additionalWidth > 259 then additionalWidth := 259; // maximum - minimum
edtEingabe.Width := 191 + additionalWidth;
Width := OriginalFormWidth + additionalWidth; // You'll need to know what the minimum width of your form is
end;
This isn't really a very pretty solution, though - changing all of those properties in the same way is ugly. Instead, since it appears you're also resizing the form, you can change the Anchors property of your edit box to make it maintain its margin to the right side as well, and only resize your form.
However, you probably want to consider if this is really a good idea. Why not let the input field just have a single size? In general, it looks better if windows don't resize on their own.
Do something like this:
procedure THauptform.edtEingabeChange(Sender: TObject);
var
Edit:TEdit;
begin
Edit := TEdit(Sender);
Edit.Width := Canvas.TextWidth(Edit.Text+' |')+
Edit.Padding.Left+
Edit.Padding.Right;
end;
Note 1: Don't manually try to limit the size. Instead, set Constraints.MinWidth and Constraints.MaxWidth via the property editor. That leaves your code clean and useless GUI stuff like this in the .dfm.
Note 2: TEdit doesn't have any public canvas property that you can use to get the text width.
Note 3: I don't like this kind of interface with growing and shrinking inputs, but it's probably just a matter of personal taste.