[lelanthran]

> And many apps that would benefit greatly from being resizable were non-resizeable instead, just because it was easier.

Maybe, but Delphi had anchor fields that you could use to make everything resize nicely.

The problem with that time period was that most applications were designed to not be resizeable, including most of the ones that came with Windows itself.

We still have that - some of the Windows programs right now can't be resized (Thinking specifically of dialogs and windows for device manager->driver details, or explorer->options).

This wasn't a Delphi problem at all; it was a Windows problem because that was the convention on Windows at the time.[1]

[1] EDIT: s/Windows/GUI systems/g

[eru]

> 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]

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]

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