[narag]

Delphi was first released in 1995. Screen real estate at the time was very different. When people started using measures other than pixels there was a huge codebase using them already.

The translation systems were really atrocious. I had to develop one myself because the ones that I evaluated were useless.

It took me a couple of weeks, but once I found the right (and only reasonable) way, with the help of library introspection features it was very easy to add new automated translations.

I wrote it down in my defunct blog, 15 years ago. I guess you didn't find it at the time.