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Creating a professional-looking (and behaving!) form designer

When I began programming (some 10+ years ago), three things amazed me: Compilers/interpreters (back then I knew them as "programs that make my programs work", often followed by the qualifier "whatever they are") Code editors Form designers Back…
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Equivalent to designer guidelines in code

The VCL form designer offers pink guidelines for aligning controls at their respective text base lines: But as far as I can tell this doesn't work for labels and checkboxes. Update: It works for labels if you place the controls exactly, e.g. by…
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Delphi-like GUI designer for Python

Is there any GUI toolkit for Python with form designer similar to Delphi, eg where one can drag and drop controls to form, move them around etc.
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How best to create a HMI display panel (user-customised interface) in Delphi

I need to improve a screen in our Application that presents an HMI (Human Machine Interface) display embedded in our Delphi code. This screen provides our customer with the ability to perform a range of actions (run test, product report etc) and to…
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Disabling the form designer in DelphiXE

Is it possible to disable the form designer in DelphiXE "on-demand/selectively" and only work with the code of a form/class where needed, in the event that controls are not installed in the IDE?
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Delphi Form Designer doesn't undo changes

In the Delphi Form Designer how do I undo changes. I press Ctrl + Z and nothing happens, I go to Edit -> Undo and it is grayed out. Am I just missing something or does this just not work? Also, if it does just not work, are there any plugins which…
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How to Implement Custom Windows Forms Designer?

How can we implement Windows Forms Designer in a WinForms application ? Visual Studio uses System.ComponentModel.Design namespace to implement the Form Designer. How can we use this to implement a Form Designer in a WinForms application ? Is there…
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Resources in project file in VS2008 gets "reused" creatively by the form designer, possible to avoid?

We have some auto-generated resource files in our project in Visual Studio 2008, with some localized versions, and in one of these localized versions, there is a string which in this case is empty. More explicit. We have a core resource file, with…
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Visual Studio keeps deleting code in form.designers

I'm making a winform application. I'm trying to add a keydown event to a combo box so I prepared the event implementation and then I added inside the form.designers document the line: this.cmboxSearchPath.KeyDown += cmboxSearchPath_KeyDown; for…
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Controls on main window using Visual C++ designer?

Is is possible to draw controls using Visual C++ designer on the main window, in the same way you can design dialogs? I'd preferably like to be able to design the main window controls this way without using MFC, rather than creating them on…
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.NET custom form designer: How to implement IMenuCommandService?

I've got a report form designer written long ago for a database project. It used a lot of winapi magic hence i was forced to rewrite some parts 'in proper way'. Thanks to some articles from MSDN magazine (here and here) and CodeProject i was able to…
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Is it safe to use Delphi visual form designer in high DPI?

In the past we were using standard 96dpi windows most of the time on developer machines, today it is common to go with 120 or even more. Is it safe to save forms in Delphi in high dpi or are there any annoyances or risks involved? I'm not asking how…
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How to implement a winform dialog in Delphi without IDE?

I don't have the Delphi IDE installed. Can I still design forms?
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FieldSet background color

I am trying to set a background color for a fieldset in Telerik with the below code. Can someone point me in right direction, or have any other ideas? .RadForm_Office2007.rfdFieldset fieldset { border: solid 1px #080808; …
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Native API window designer

Why isn't there a designer for native api forms in Visual Studio? Similar to Delphi? If there exist some programs, tools etc, please advice. What is the best approach to design complex windows in pure API?
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