Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

re: Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

Thomas Eyde — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:09:00 GMT

Very good!

I replaced my two statics on my ControlPositioner with the one below to match the place-all-in-corner solution. I am still using Jay's original algorithm:

public static void PositionInLowerRightCorner(Control[] controls, Form f, int margin)
{
Control relative = null;

foreach (Control c in controls)
{
ControlPositioner cp = new ControlPositioner(c, margin);

if (relative == null)
{
cp.PositionInLowerRightCornerOf(f);
}
else
{
cp.PositionToLeftOf(relative);
}
relative = c;
}
}

re: Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

BillT — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:14:00 GMT

This is fun!

So now we have CornerAlignControls, which is a LayoutManager or ControlLayoutTool.

What could we do to:
(1) make a more general ControlLayoutTool, or
(2) specify the layout rules, or
(3) extend all these ideas?

re: Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

David Kean — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:15:00 GMT

I think you'll find you need to change this line:

lastLocation.X -= control.Width - spacing;

to

lastLocation.X -= control.Width + spacing;

You will also need to think about Right-To-Left and AutoScale (the spacing should be based on AutoScaleBaseSize and the auto scale size of the new font...

Then it starts to get complicated...

re: Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

Steve — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:44:00 GMT

btw, Jaybaz, how are you formatting your code in your posts. It looks really nicde.

Would you care to share? Thanks!

re: Clearest Code Challenge: Jesse Ezel's answer inspires!

Jay Bazuzi [MS] — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:55:00 GMT

It's really cool to see where this is going. Not one of us could have come this far alone. The group dynamic is amazing.

BillT: if you want to carry this further, it might be tough to do in the comments of my blog. I'd suggest using your own blog.