[Lazarus] LCL High-DPI request for help adding images
Donald Ziesig
donald at ziesig.org
Fri Feb 24 17:23:44 CET 2017
On 02/24/2017 05:03 AM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
> On 22.02.2017 17:55, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote:
>> Hi Ondrej!
>>
>> I downloaded the latest lazarus from svn. Then make bigide.
>>
>> When I started lazarus, the CoolBar is empty (except for the Save
>> icon which is the correct size). The component icons are definitely
>> bigger than the last version, but appear more like 125% rather than
>> the 150% that I would expect for 144 dpi.
>>
>> I rebuilt the laz_images.res (at least the file time stamp changed)
>> and the ide but there was no change in the empty CoolBar.
>>
>> images/README.txt says:
>>
>> To use a high-DPI icon, register the icon with the suffix "_150"
>> (150%) or "_200" (200%). See e.g. actions/laz_save_150.png
>>
>> How do I do that? I can create the bigger icons with gimp and store
>> them in the actions directory but that doesn't seem to help (tried
>> this with the menu_run icon but it still uses the old one.
>
> You have to register them in laz_images_list.txt as well and recreate
> res files. Please read the whole README.txt, not only the last chapter.
>
*I mis-understood what "register" meant. I thought there was a process
that needed to be done, rather than just adding the image file name to
the list. I am trying that now.*
>>
>> Also, in the sub-menus there is only ONE icon (for File|Save).
>
> What is you OS/WidgetSet? It looks like the icons don't scale for you
> - you are obviously getting empty icons.
*linux mint 18 / gtk2*
>
> Ondrej
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