I don't know/ remember for the other 2 (I have used them a couple of times long time ago) but Lazarus is basically an open source recreation of Delphi so those are pretty standard features. Even the standard library of Delphi has been ported to Lazarus / Free Pascal and it directly support specific Delphi versions. What you describe are standard features for most if not all GUI designers anyway. ��

In Delphi I vaguely remember they were called anchors, you could pin them on a specific layout or choose sides or pin them in absolute positions though the last option was the least desirable if you wanted an easily resizable interface but overall you had tons of options.

I remember the Delphi ("Mastering Delphi 6") book have once bought around 1000 pages , I still have it with me, 300 pages was the designer itself. But I dont count in the overall architecture where everything worked with drag and drop. So basically if you wanted to add a database engine inside your app , the engine was represented as a GUI button you drag and drop on top of the form of your app like any other GUI element but of course it was not visible when you run the app.��

Delphi is minimising code this way which is paradigm that Lazarus follows very closely too. So the designer went and still is going far beyond to just designing GUIs.

Of course I dont expect something of such power in Pharo, actually not even Visual Studio has been able to compete with Delphi in RAD (Rapid Application Development) or even its main competitor Visual Basic. Borland was very powerful and quite well funded company with very big experience on programming languages and IDEs. Unfortunately like Visual Basic they lost traction when Java came out and Delphi was sold to a much smaller company. But still Delphi is quite popular. On the other hand modern IDEs do have many of these features.��

I was mainly talking about basic GUI designers. Draging , droping, resizing, setting layouts and constraints and at least having access to basic widgets for fast creation of GUI is absolute essential for a GUI based IDE like Pharo. ��

You can't work as fast with code for GUI design. Its very slow and this is why GUI designers have been so popular and considered standard practice.��