Hi,

I am having trouble to understand the Consumption property.
Suppose I have a Label1 in my TPanel with Label1.LayOut.Position:=lpLeftCenter. If I set Label1.LayOut.Consumption:=lcRight this means that the NEXT element in my layout occupies the space to the right of Label1?
In other words: Consumption always instructs the next element about its layout?

Greetings,
Ronald  

Ronald,

<< I am having trouble to understand the Consumption property.
Suppose I have a Label1 in my TPanel with Label1.LayOut.Position:=lpLeftCenter. If I set Label1.LayOut.Consumption:=lcRight this means that the NEXT element in my layout occupies the space to the right of Label1?
In other words: Consumption always instructs the next element about its layout? >>

Exactly correct.

In 2.01, this concept is extended a bit with the Layout.Overflow property, which will allow the current element to temporarily adjust the *prior* element's consumption/reset properties in order to prevent an element from overflowing the available space in the current layout rectangle.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
>>In 2.01, this concept is extended a bit with the Layout.Overflow property, which will allow the current element to >>temporarily adjust the *prior* element's consumption/reset properties in order to prevent an element from >>overflowing the available space in the current layout rectangle.

Which is how you get the responsive effect, yes?