So, picking up from here:
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And considering this not as a bug but rather an oversight when implementing these features, my wish can be expressed in 2 ways:
1 - Change the way layouts are rendered so that Designer Scripts have precedence over Anchors... This would allow any view to first be re-dimensioned, as per my example, and then have the child's Anchors applied taking into consideration the "new" parent dimensions...
or
2 - a new method, like View.ReApplyAnchors to allow the Anchors of a given view to be recalculated,.
Designer Scripts and Anchors (I feel dumb, but....)
Hi guys, I am most certainly doing something wrong, but here it is... I have 2 panels, one is the child of the other, the parent is positioned by a designer script, and the child panel is Anchored at 3dpi from each side (anchor = both, for both vertical and horizontal) I'm my head, this would...

1 - Change the way layouts are rendered so that Designer Scripts have precedence over Anchors... This would allow any view to first be re-dimensioned, as per my example, and then have the child's Anchors applied taking into consideration the "new" parent dimensions...
or
2 - a new method, like View.ReApplyAnchors to allow the Anchors of a given view to be recalculated,.