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by eru 456 days ago
> 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.
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lelanthran 456 days 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.

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silon42 456 days ago
No... Motif/CDE had resizable/constraint layout in early 90's
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