Making container for elements

[pandawid]

Hi there!

Is there possibility to do something like container with elements and Affinity'd calculate margins from the elements? I mean something like html/css...
For instance I have four bars and I want to add another one. Can AD calculate paddings/margins and add there my new bar with every bar equal size?

[gdenby]

Hi, pandawid,

 

I think the constraints feature may be of help. Check out this.

 

Here are some examples. First, a set of columns w. text labels centered. The text is constrained to stay at the center, but not get smaller. 2nd, the columns uniformly scaled narrower. 3rd, the columns spread out, and spaced w. even distribution.

 

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The text size was fixed, but appears different because of the different sizes of the screen capture boxes.

 

The process is not automatic, but there are quite a few ways to create items that are of certain proportions relative to others, and arrange them in various way quickly.

[firstdefence]

Affinity Designer (ADe) has no facility for creating or calculating code, as gdenby has shown Affinity Designer (ADe) is a layout/design software, the coding in respect of CSS, margins, padding etc would have to be done in the software you are going to use to construct this project in. you could use grids and guides to demarcate where the margins and/or padding would be.