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Report #: 106547

Status: Reported

Add a feature in IDE form design to always honor original PixelsPerInch

Project: Delphi

Build #: 16.0.4429.46931

Version: 16.4

Submitted By: Chee Yang Chau

Report Type: New Feature Request

Date Reported: 6/19/2012 11:04:28 PM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 6/20/2012 11:23:54 PM

Platform: All versions

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Description

Delphi form has Scaled property that scale form and it's controls as according to it's design time scale.

Delphi stores PixelsPerInch in DFM file and make it scale well even working in different windows font size.

In a development environment that has few team members using different windows font size (default, medium or large), the DFM files committed to version control repository is hard to monitor even a tidy changes like changing width of a control.

For example, open a DFM file with original PixelPerInch = 96 in Delphi IDE's of Screen.PixelsPerInch = 120 (media font size). Change the form's width and save it will cause lot of changes although we expect one changes only (width in this case). Commit the DFM file to version control repository will confuse others team members who might think the form had done lot of changes.

It would be great to have a feature in Delphi IDE form designer to always follow original PixelsPerInch in DFM file, doing any changes to the DFM files will always follow original PixelsPerInch.

Or a Zoom feature in Form designer to &quot;zoom&quot; the form to bigger size but lock PixelsPerInch to original value.

It should solve the problem of team development where team members using mix windows font size.

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I have posted an Delphi IDE Open tools to overcome the problem: http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/28922

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