I have been referring to containers, rather than
forms. Why is this? Well, we have Forms and Form Segments as
containers, and we also now have Panels. All can be resized, and
the fields within will adjust according to their anchor
points.
This is quite a significant change, and one that
allows for a great deal more flexibility. There are several very
good reasons for this:
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As
discussed, fields can be anchored to the edges of any of these
containers
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These
containers are all resizable, both in the Designer, and at run time
if they are anchored to their particular
container
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All
containers may contain containers (at present we cannot have
Segments inside Segments, however)
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Containers may be docked to an edge of, or to the
entire container (which can also cause resizing if fields are
anchored).
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The
visibility of entire containers (except forms) can be set to a
field or fields.
We could, for example, create a form segment with
anchored fields. If I add that segment to a form, I can then resize
it on that form at run time (and at design time). Fields within the
segment will move appropriately.
If I wish, I may also anchor that form segment to
opposing edges of the form (or container). This would make the form
segment resize both at design time and at run time if the form
does, and the fields then move appropriately. I could have as many
form segments on the form as I like, and make them all behave as I
like. This gives you a great deal of
flexibility.
Dynamic field size and position.
