Hi,

I've got a form with two TBasicPanel (header and detail), the header contains a TLabel which has it's caption set at run time, so I'm trying to get the panels to re-size based on label caption - so header takes what it needs based on the label, and detail uses the rest. The header panel will later contain a few more controls eventually, but for simple testing I've set up a test with one tLabel for now to illustrate/test the issue.

The properties I've set are:
Form:
Layout - Stretch = lsBottomRight

HeaderPanel:
Layout - Consumption = lcBottom
Layout - Postion = lpTopLeft
Layout - Stretch = lsRight (to make it full width)
Margins - 10 all round
Layout Order: 0

DetailPanel:
Layout - Postion = lpTopLeft
Layout - Stretch = lsBottomRight
Margins - bottom, left and right all set to 10
Layout Order: 1

Label1 Settings:
Margins - 5 all round
Layout - Postion = lpTopLeft
Layout - Stretch = lsBottomRight
Format - Wrap = true

I've made sure I've left the Label.Autosize - width set false as found a few previous posts indicating this was an issue when using Layout. Have tried Autosize - height =true on the label and header panel - makes no difference.
I've also looked at setting the Layout - Overflow property on the label and header panel, this also doesn't seem to have made any difference.

What am I missing please / how can I make the label & header panel expand/shrink based on label text and form width ?

Thanks

Andrew,

> What am I missing please / how can I make the label & header panel expand/shrink based on label text and form width ?

Two settings are not correct:

1. The label's Layout.Stretch must be lsRight, not lsBottomRight (with lsBottomRight Autosize.Height does not work).
2. The HeaderPanel's Autosize.Height has to be set.

Please note that the label's Layout.Consumption has also to be set, otherwise the Panel's Autosize.Height would not work.

Attached a sample project.

Uli

Aha perfect, many thanks Uli.