Ooops,
if I would have imagined what discussion my little post has started...
Well, with "automatic layout" I mean automatic sizing and positioning of controls.
To give a simple example: in a toolbar, adding buttons one after the other would instruct the toolbar's "layout manager" to place them in row, side-by-side. The size of every single button would depend on its "contents" (i.e. its label and/or pixmap) This would free the programmer from silly coordinate calculations and provide the base for dynamic GUIs.
Automatic layout management is a standard for many GUI libraries, unless there is a visual GUI editor, at least.
Hope this clarifies my posting a bit - sorry for any inconveniences I've caused by not specifying properly, what I meant...
if I would have imagined what discussion my little post has started...
Well, with "automatic layout" I mean automatic sizing and positioning of controls.
To give a simple example: in a toolbar, adding buttons one after the other would instruct the toolbar's "layout manager" to place them in row, side-by-side. The size of every single button would depend on its "contents" (i.e. its label and/or pixmap) This would free the programmer from silly coordinate calculations and provide the base for dynamic GUIs.
Automatic layout management is a standard for many GUI libraries, unless there is a visual GUI editor, at least.
Hope this clarifies my posting a bit - sorry for any inconveniences I've caused by not specifying properly, what I meant...