Many Windows applications specify absolute position and absolute sizes when they lay out controls in the parent window. This strategy has some drawbacks: The created windows cannot be resized, changes are difficult and creation of good looking windows is time consuming.
Another way which is very common in cross platform frameworks (wxWidgets, QT, Java …) is to use layout algorithm. A layout algorithm determines the size and position of its controls based on its policy. Although every control can provide its preferences about its size, position and alignment, the layout algorithm can ignore these preferences if they are against its layout policy.
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