Can I make the form larger in the IDE?

[cupboy 0]

The form is rather small in the IDE making it hard to work with. Is there a way to adjust the size of the form in the IDE? Could I make it the same size as it is when the program is run? I am using version 11.2.

 

Edited November 12 by cupboy

[PeterBelow 238]

I you are running the IDE on a monitor with scaling set to anything other than 100% it matters if you have enabled high DPI support for the form designer or not (the latter is equivalent to launching the IDE via the Delphi (DPI unware) shortcut the installer provides in the start menu group. You can find the relevant setting in the Tools -> Options dialog:

[cupboy 0]

Thanks! I set it to Automatic (Screen PPI). I was also able to uncheck Scaled for the form. I'll have to do more testing but everything looks good so far. I'll have to try it with a standard monitor and see what happens.

 

update: Set Scaled back to true since the bitmaps on the buttons were tiny otherwise and now they look normal.

Edited November 15 by cupboy

[PeterBelow 238]

15 hours ago, cupboy said:

Thanks! I set it to Automatic (Screen PPI). I was also able to uncheck Scaled for the form. I'll have to do more testing but everything looks good so far. I'll have to try it with a standard monitor and see what happens.

 

update: Set Scaled back to true since the bitmaps on the buttons were tiny otherwise and now they look normal.

Take a look at TVirtualImagelist and TVirtualimageCollection, these allow you to supply different versions (sizes) of bitmaps optimized for the DPI settings your app may encounter in the wild. This tends to look better than getting the images scaled at runtime from a single sized version.