Yes, everything in the layout was fixed, unless you chose to resize it through code

I've developed many applications in VB that dynamically resized every control to maintain a consistent UI regardless of the window size

I mean, simple things like this

textarea.width = form.width - ( textarea.left * 2 )

to keep it centered and preserved the margins

Granted, for complex layouts, it quickly evolved into a dedicated procedure to resize all controls in the correct order and handle edge cases. But it was absolutely doable, even by an amateur teenage programmer

I think other IDEs (Delphi maybe?) had anchors and other helpful features to assist with resizing

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