Lazarus released with LCL interface changes, IDE changes and much more!

What’s new in Lazarus 2.0.0

LCL (Lazarus Component Library) Interface Changes

• ScreenToClient and ClientToScreen can now be calculated without scrollbar offset.
• Support for mouse wheel horz scrolling.
• This release comes with added flags to exclude support for some graphics formats to create smaller applications.
• The image list now supports multiple resolutions of one image.
• All the LCL controls now support High-DPI glyphs on Windows+Linux and Retina on Mac without any additional code.
• Every LCL control that supports ImageList now has a new ImagesWidth property for deciding what custom width at 96 PPI (100% scale) is to be used.

IDE Changes

• This release includes several High-DPI IDE improvements and a retina support on Cocoa
• The IDE parses the custom compiler options for the fpc switch -FN<namespaces> for defining the default namespaces.

Editor

• Lazarus 2.0.0 comes with "smart move cursor" moving commands for editor mappings. They are useful as an alternative for Ctrl+Left/+Right/+Shift+Left/+Shift+Right key.
• This release comes with added Goto/Toggle bookmark submenu for the toolbar.
• Additional options to fine-tune outline colors.

Debugger

• This release comes with an added option "FixStackFrameForFpcAssert" to workaround fpc wrong frame pointer.
• There is an added option "FixIncorrectStepOver" to workaround "step over" issues experienced on some platforms.

Components incompatibilities

• TSpinEditEx and TFloatSpinEditEx now inherit a common base class TSpinEditExBase.
• The reticule component is removed because the crosshair cursor is included in the more versatile charttools.

To know more about this news, check out the Lazarus’ official post.

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