Adding Attachments to Frame Controls

Defining Attachments to Sibling Components

Attachments can be further classified by whether they attach the defining component to its parent or to a sibling component. Sibling attachments connect a component to one of its siblings. All of the previous examples have shown parent attachments.

Sibling attachments can often simplify a set of attachments by making it visually easier to interpret the attachment logic. In addition, this type of attachment sometimes results in fewer attachments.

a, b, and c should all follow the right side of their common parent. This can be accomplished by attaching all regions to the parent directly, but using sibling attachments is easier to understand.

[a, b, and c should all follow the right side of their common parent. This can be accomplished by attaching all regions to the parent directly, but using sibling attachments is easier to understand.]

If the right side of the parent grows to the right, all of the sibling regions move to the right as well.

[If the right side of the parent grows to the right, all of the sibling regions move to the right as well.]

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