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Cableguy

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A thought on number one...

No anchors is just not possible... Why?
Because any view is placed relative to a 0 (zero) point, usually set by the views parent. A view with no anchors would have to have a meaningless left and top values... Which is... Impossible!
Default anchors are top and left, because it's where the parents zero points are!
 

Cableguy

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LucaMs said:
that is, it is possible; and also it is useful to get the result you can see here.
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as said in the linked page, they are "anchored to the nearest boundary", so none doesn't really exist!
 

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Cableguy said:
as said in the linked page, they are "anchored to the nearest boundary", so none doesn't really exist!
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It exists and it is useful in the case I linked. Try to obtain the layout I published there without a designer's script.

It does not means that the View will stay anchored to the nearest boundary (which should mean mantaining a fixed distance from); the View will be placed at a proportional distance from all boundaries (edges?).
 

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Please, try to realize the layout as I did (at that time) using VS AND AS I POSTED THERE:

The three central buttons have anchor set to None, so they remain at center even if you change the form size.
 
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klaus

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Again, NONE means nothing.
In your case you should ask for anchor CENTER that's what you ask in your example..
Then how should Button5 and Button6 be placed?
With a distance to the CENTER or %x to the center?
Distance of Left, Middle or right to the center?
That's why I say that NONE means nothing.
 

LucaMs

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klaus said:
Again, NONE means nothing.
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Well, say it to Microsoft

klaus said:
In your case you should ask for anchor CENTER
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That was an example. However in that example there isn't a View at center, but 3 views which "mantain proportional distances from the 4 edges".

If you use MS VS you can try and see how it works and what I mean.



b4a - central buttons with default anchoring (top-left)
 
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Erel

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Anchors are simple and useful. They are not supposed to solve all problems. This is exactly why there is also a built-in designer script engine. You can easily implement such a layout with the designer script.
You can also set the minimum width and height with the designer script:
B4X: 
'set min width
Button1.Width = Max(Button1.Width, 30dip)
'or
Button1.Width = Max(Button1.Width, Panel2.Width / 3)
'or
If ActivitySize < 5 Then mw = 30dip Else mw = 60dip
Button1.Width = Max(Button1.Width, mw)

For further discussions please start a new thread in the questions forum.
 
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