On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Tobias Giesen wrote:

> > AFAIK other widgetsets have fractionals too and you don't need a
> > parameter.
> 
> OK then we'll call the new property
> AllowCarbonFractionalPositioning
> 
> > - either implement scale factors for TCanvas
> > - or add TextOut/TextExtent/... functions with floats to TCanvas.
> 
> Sounds like long-term solutions ... a new property could make everybody
> happy _today_.

And everybody unhappy in the future because it is very ad-hoc, and bound
to disappear, backwards compatibility issues etc etc etc. 
It's also highly non portable, and the LCL is about portability.

A long-term solution is always to be preferred. 

On top:
I fail to see how you can use fractions, you cannot draw or position on 
half a pixel...

Michael.

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