Hello,

is there some trick to design a form that is bigger (or as big as) than the screen where I'm designing it?

In the past I designed the form, say, 70% smaller than the desired size, then at runtime I resized it with ScaleBy, however

- some components (or their fonts or the associated picture) aren't scaled correctly
- now I have a form already designed at 1:1 scale for an 800x600 screen that I have to adapt to 1920x1080

(in this screen I have to use the added real estate, I cannot simply blow it up to the bigger size).

I tried using a scrollbox but the scrollbars only work at runtime, not at design time.

Bye

El 13/11/24 a les 8:47, Luca Olivetti via lazarus ha escrit:

I meant "70% of the desired size"

You can use a docked form editor - install the "DockedFormEditor" package accordingly. It allows you to scroll the form in the editor window. ?
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El 15/11/24 a les 21:31, n7800 via lazarus ha escrit:

You can use a docked form editor - install the "DockedFormEditor"

Thank you, I'll take a look, for the time being I'm using a different approach: I use (almost) the full width of the screen but not the full height, then at runtime I just resize the form, filling the extra space using the anchors of some components that can be resized vertically.

Bye