The Impact of the PML Form Layout Changes - *12​.1​.SP3*

Description

PML developers using the new Forms and Menues libraries, may discover unacceptable changes to the layout of some existing forms. The fix for the layout changes is usually straight forward.

This document lists the available documentation. The continuation of this document, which can be found in item KB4453 in the Knowledge Base, also extracts some important layout programming guidelines and issues. It also tries to present some of the experience gained so far, which should help developers to solve their layout problems.

For More Information

Key documents

• Software Customisation Guide: see particularly

  • Defining a Form

  • Form Layout

    • Layout Modes

    • Positioning, Alignment and Size of Gadgets

    • Auto-placement

    • Set Size to the Positional Extent of a Previous Gadget

    • Intelligent Resizing

    • ANCHOR Attribute

  • Converting a Form to VarChars and Layout Form.

• Software Customisation Reference Manual: updated to match the Guide.