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The web page http://www.codegear.com/en/products/bds2006 starts with a list which includes this line:

  • Ensure visual consistency with customizable VCL designer guidelines.

Is this related to the 'laser-line' guidelines? How can these guidelines be 'customized'?

Edit: This page gives additional information about this feature.

+1  A: 

Yup, those are them.

By "customizable", I wonder if they mean that they honour each control's margin settings? I'm not sure if you can change their behaviour otherwise (aside from turning them on or off).

Bruce McGee
+3  A: 

They could mean that they are customizable by component writers. I think the only end user customization is to turn them on or off.

MarkF
It looks like this is the meaning of customizable here. The page http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/39136 says: "Component designers can also make their components “guideline aware” if their controls have any special requirements for alignment. " - no additional information however, looks like we have to explore the VCL sources (or the documentation?)
mjustin
+2  A: 

This has more to do with the fact that a control can now have "padding" and "margins" which would increase the guideline as it is increased. The guidelines now react to these properties.

skamradt