>>Hello friends,
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>>I have read the VFP help on Anchor property, searched here on UT for some messages on Anchor. The VFP Help goes over my head. The few messages that I read suggest some numbers to use. Like in one message a guru suggest to set anchor value to 768, 45, 135; but no explanation on how these numbers derived. So I am wondering, is there an article on the web or on UT that has an explanation of use of Anchors for Dummies <g>
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>>Thank you in advance for your help.
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>In every case, the anchor value should be the sum of some of the powers of two that appear in the help.
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>E.g. 768 = 512 + 256, that is, vertical fixed size and horizontal fixed size.
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>In this example, I first determined the highest power of two that fits (512), and then subtracted to see how much was missing. Then, obtain the next power of two.
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>Another example, showing all the steps:
>45 = 32 + 23
>45 = 32 + 16 + 7
>45 = 32 + 16 + 4 + 3
>45 = 32 + 16 + 4 + 2 + 1
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>Now, look up in the help, what every one of these values does.
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>When writing this value in code, instead of writing:
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>SomeObject.Anchor = 768
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>better change it to something like this, which makes the result more readable:
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>#define ANCHOR_HORIZONTAL_FIXED_SIZE 512
>#define ANCHOR_VERTICAL_FIXED_SIZE 256
>...
>SomeObject.Anchor = ANCHOR_HORIZONTAL_FIXED_SIZE + ANCHOR_VERTICAL_FIXED_SIZE
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>The #define commands would be placed in an include file.

Thank you for detailed explanation. This and the builder should be very helpful!