[Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Lukasz Sokol wrote:

> On 07/10/15 11:44, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 2015-10-07 11:24, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> There are currently about 400 icons in the IDE.
>>> We need volunteers to create them either as SVG or as higher resolution
>>> image.
>>
>> Use SVG directly and let it render the correct size at runtime. That
>> will solve the problem for any dpi value. Higher resolution images will
>> only solve the problem for hard-coded dpi values like the Microsoft
>> ones... Think Android phones and tables, where every devices has a
>> different DPI value and they vary greatly.
>>
>> Break it down into manageable steps:
>>
>> 1. Add SVG support to LCL, but keep BMP & PNG support too.
>> 2. Change the high-visibility icons to SVG first.
>>    eg: the ones on the main toolbar.
>> 3. Then as time permits (or contributors help), go through the menus and
>>    dialogs one by one.
>>
>
> What do you think about http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html ?

I had seen this article already, which is why I also think that SVG is not the way to go.

Basically, the only excuse for using SVG for icons, is lack of time.

Michael.