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NOTE
Working with the Form Designer and the Menu Designer
component). Be sure to set the first and last components where you want
them before choosing the Space Equally Vertically alignment option.
This is true of the Space Equally Horizontally alignment option as well.
The Center Horizontally in Window and Center Vertically in Window alignment options
do exactly as their names indicate. These options are convenient for centering a single control,
such as a button, on the form or for centering a group of controls. As long as you still have
the group of buttons selected, click both the Center Horizontally in Window and Center
Vertically in Window buttons on the Alignment Palette. The buttons will be centered on the
form both vertically and horizontally.
When you have a group of controls selected and you click one of the
centering buttons, the controls will be treated as a group. If you were to
choose each control individually and center it both horizontally and
vertically on the form, all the controls would be stacked on top of one
another in the middle of the form. By selecting the group and then
centering, you will get the entire group centered as you intended.
The form should now look like the one in Figure 7.13.
Figure 7.13.
The form with the
buttons centered.
NOTE
The two window-centering alignment options can be used to align
components that are contained within other components, such as
buttons on a panel. The components will be centered horizontally
or vertically on their parent component whether the parent is a panel
or a form.
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