[abraha]

Just getting started and these are the things that stick out first:

Why is there no Layout\Anchors for anything but the top level form? It seems the snap-to logic may try to anchor them, but it really needs to be part of the designer to easily set these things.

Speaking of the snap-to, the automatic blue-line snap-tos are nice, but make dragging stuff around very annoying. This should be something that can be turned on by holding down a modifier, like the shift or control key while dragging.

Also, since you use CPPB (I've been a Delphi developer for about 8 years), you are probably familiar with the "Align To" menu options and tool pallete. I think this would be useful here, too.

Looking good so far!