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		eru 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now C... > 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.

lelanthran 10 months ago [–]

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.

silon42 10 months ago | [–]

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

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