[Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed Oct 7 10:45:50 CEST 2015



On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 00:09:54 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Are there any plans to make the LCL (and by extension the IDE itself) High-DPI aware?
>> Working on a Macbook Pro with retina screen (running kubuntu) is OK if you only need to edit code, but
>> as soon as you need to use buttons (any toolbutton or even component palette button),
>> it becomes very difficult. The editor toolbar is next to useless on high DPI.
>
> How does the VCL work on High-DPI?
>

All I know is: It's DPI-Aware. Normally, that should cover most cases.
I do not know if it is multi-monitor DPI aware.

To be correct, in early versions of Delphi, DPI-Awareness was severely broken.
So much so that we had to disable it in our applications.

Michael.




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