[Lazarus] High-DPI aware LCL ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:

> On 07.10.2015 00:09, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Out of curiosity:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Michael.
>
> I do write High-DPI aware LCL application with Lazarus without problems. 
> The IDE itself should at some point in the future support it as well (IMO by 
> default, without any extension). But I don't know if there are some plans 
> about it.
> I haven't bought a 4K display because of High-DPI problems in Delphi and 
> Lazarus IDEs.
>

Would you mind elaborating on this ?

I wrote an app which is DPI aware (as per the instructions on the Lazarus wiki).

It worked on Linux, Windows 7. Then someone ran it on Windows 8 and 10, 
and those versions of Windows did something which completely messed up 
the DPI awareness. I believe it has something to do with the manifest, 
but I didn't have time to investigate it yet :(

Michael.