Originally shared by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers

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Originally shared by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers

Seems my Google Foo is letting me down today:

is there any way when you use a frame on a form to ensure that the controls in that frame cannot be moved?

Basically I want to have the layout in the frame to be fixed.

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  1. Eric GrangeOctober 18, 2016 at 1:27 AM

    Is there a way?

    This is one of the reasons I have not been using frames (that and its corollaries: ensuring that both events are not added to frame components, and components are not added as child to frame components).

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  2. Pavel NovákOctober 18, 2016 at 2:26 AM

    /sub

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  3. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 18, 2016 at 4:09 AM

    Eric Grange I think you're right: there isn't (apart from making it in a component): http://www.delphigroups.info/2/ad/408298.html
    delphigroups.info - lock TFrame control ? - delphi

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  4. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)October 18, 2016 at 4:22 AM

    Not possible. I don't insert frames at design time but create them at runtime. I use a panel without bevel as a placeholder.
    To get a more visual design experience, you could use a TImage with a screen shot of the frame instead. But that means having that image as part of your program.
    Or convert it into a component ...
    Actually, writing a component that refers to a frame, shows a picture of it at design time and instantiates it at runtime would be a cool side project. Any takers?
    Or maybe somebody wants to write an expert that makes a frame read only like the IDE already allows you to do for a form...

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  5. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 18, 2016 at 6:35 AM

    Thomas Mueller if I knew how the IDE did it for the whole form...

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  6. David NottageOctober 18, 2016 at 2:04 PM

    Thomas Mueller +1000 on the "don't insert frames at design time" part

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