Delphi VCL Applications with mixed DPI

High DPI display and 4K Monitors are getting more common these days. Supporting higher settings than 96 dpi is already possible with some of the newer Delphi versions.

Nevertheless this is still a time and resource consuming task. Not only do you need additional sizes for the icons used in your application, you also have to check each form and frame for looking good in higher scaled environments.

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Tweaking DFM Loading

One of the most shown feature of Delphi is its Design Editor with its ability to design forms and connect components in an easy and intuitive way. I can’t count the occasions where I have seen a form being decorated with some data controls connected to a TDatasource, which itself is connected to a TDataset descendant (see the docwiki). Continue reading “Tweaking DFM Loading”