Well, I'm a MS user since the old days of 640x480 EGA graphics.
But now-adays we use riduculous resolutions don't we.
My question: About who I should ask this question from.....
Windows started off with dialogs that were meant for a certain size
font.
Microsoft realised that the older generation don't like tiny fonts so
they
added Accesability Features into Windows. For backwards compatibility
though
they left the dialogs Specifically the container class #32770 as it
was.
#32770 is still the same today as it was in the old days. The qustion
is
what does this have todo with accessibility features....
Well as you guessed Windows' Container Dialog doesn't resize
automatically
to fit it's contents (only recently been cured with .net dialogs) -
when you
increase the font size with accesibilty features or the DPI settings,
or even
go through and Change the resource standard font sizes in the libraries
themselves, any dialog which is invoked with a container dialog will
have
it's contents overflowed.
Why microsoft hasn't fixed this pretty darn obvious flaw I don't know -
I
don't really care I want to fix it - and I am sure everyone else that
has to
setup computers for the Elederly would like to be able to keep the
monitor
resolution at a standard level (especially today with LCDs you should
keep
the resolution native to the monitor, otherwise it's blurry) yet
increase the
font size and not have to worry about Print dialog boxes not being able
to
display all the controls within.
Try this: Increase your Font DPI to 120
Then start notepad and open the Print Dialog Box - see anything wronng
- yes the dialog won't resize to fit!
My question is how should I fix this, (Where should I post the question
to
get an answer)
-
I know I should get a life - but it's been 15years plus now and
microsoft
still hasn;t bothered to fix it, So if I have to get into the code, or
make
me own container dialog to replace #32770 then I would much apprecitate
info
on subverting the standard dialog container.
Thanking you in advance... (And thanking Microsoft for XP - finally an
OS to
be proud of- shame it has tobe backwards compatible!)
Charles.
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