Charles,
| I am designing on 96 dpi, and when I run on my laptop at 120 dpi I get the
| problem.
Ah! There's the Rub! (maybe ;-)). I'm designing at 120 then running at 96
dpi. I wonder why going the other direction is a problem. Or maybe its, I
wonder why I'm not having a problem... Or possible, I wonder why I'm not
seeing that I have a problem ;-)
I know on one of my controls I needed to override Control.ScaleCore as I
have custom Size & Point properties that needed to be scaled from the design
dimensions to the runtime dimensions...
Hope this helps
Jay
| Hi Jay
|
| I am designing on 96 dpi, and when I run on my laptop at 120 dpi I get the
| problem.
|
| I am dynamically adding controls, but I got the same problem when using
| controls added at design time. What I found was that if I just ran the app
| on the laptop things went skewie, but if I opened the form in the designer
| on the laptop and then ran it was ok. This suggested to me that the
designer
| detects the change in resolution and changes the positions and sizes of
| controls at design time. This, of course, didn't help me at runtime.
|
| As it happens, my remit is not to design for large fonts, so I gave up
| trying to make it work. It just remains a problem for me on my laptop.
|
| I haven't tried .NET 2.0 yet. I don't really have the time at present, and
I
| wouldn't be allowed to deploy anything built with it by my clients anyway,
| so I will start the minute it is released properly (in November, I
| understand).
|
| Charles
|
|
| | > Charles,
| > Just out of curiosity: are you designing using Large Fonts or Small
Fonts?
| >
| > I have a couple of Windows Forms apps that I've designed on a monitor
| > running 1600 by 1200 with 120 DPI setting. That when run on lower
| > resolutions with 96 DPI look fine.
| >
| > Are you dynamically adding controls, or is every thing done at design
| > time.
| >
| > Have you tried .NET 2.0 yet? It has improved support for AutoScale.
| >
| >
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ey6t55zx(en-us,vs.80).aspx
| >
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/h3kyk1we(en-us,vs.80).aspx
| >
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/fw0ta176(en-us,vs.80).aspx
| >
| > I have not done a lot with the above properties yet.
| >
| >
| > I'm curious more to know about any "gotchas" I should be aware of in my
| > stuff.
| >
| > Hope this helps
| > Jay
| >
| >
| > | > | Hi Herfried
| > |
| > | If my experience is anything to go by, I think the OP will be sadly
| > | disappointed by the AutoScale property. It just does not do what it
says
| > on
| > | the tin.
| > |
| > | For example, labels get truncated and controls become scrunched up. I
| > have
| > | not found a way to make this work, and I have spent a lot of time
| > trying.
| > |
| > | Charles
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | >>I have created a winforms application and I designed it with the
| > normal
| > | >>display settings, (96DPI) however, when I set the font settings to
120
| > | >>DPI, my application text labels look all messed up. Does anyone
know
| > a
| > | >>work-around for this problem?
| > | >
| > | > Take a look at the documentation of the form's 'AutoScale' property.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > M S Herfried K. Wagner
| > | > M V P <URL:
http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
| > | > V B <URL:
http://classicvb.org/petition/>
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
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