Large fonts !!!

[John]

Hi,

I just want to put my comment about large fonts settings (on Desktop,
properties, settings, advanced, 120 dpi) in Windows and impact it has to
programming.
I really don't understand who in Microsoft got this idea to implement large
fonts in this way.
I don't consider myself as computer expert, but I am having work on
computers for almost 20 years (from DOS).
In programming I am last few years, and I work as program designer (not
doing programming).
Now for last few years we have 2 version of programs, one for "normal" fonts
(96 dpi) and one for large fonts (120 dpi), and that is all because of one
extremely stupid idea. First here is not an issue of fonts, this is about
getting screen to stretch. So name is not correct, not only fonts are
changing, every picture in program is changing.
Have you try to run your program in large fonts? First problem you will see
is splash screen, which now does not look like before. All forms in program
are now ugly, not to mention that some forms with labels now have text that
is not completely visible, even some part of controls in forms are not
visible (depends on controls).
Each programming company can made their program to work, so that user can
choose font size in their program, and it is not quite a task. And you can't
change from large fonts to normal fonts easily, you have to restart
computer.
I am really surprised and dissapointed with this implementation.

 

[Ken Halter]

Hi,

I just want to put my comment about large fonts settings (on Desktop,
properties, settings, advanced, 120 dpi) in Windows and impact it has to
programming.
I really don't understand who in Microsoft got this idea to implement
large fonts in this way.

fwiw, a lot of people are disappointed <g> ATI (video card manufacturer) was
the first to put us through this mess. Problem is, Large Font support
should've been removed a loooonnnnngggg time ago.

Large Fonts Suck - http://www.divsoft.com/lfs/

It's fairly easy to deal with in VB6 but haven't seen sample code to deal
with the issue in dotNet. VB6 has the Screen.TwipsPerPixelX/Y methods that
tell you what the DPI settings are (15 for small, 12 for large, ?? for
Custom) which meant all it took was a bit of scaling to get things to look
right.

 

[John]

was the first to put us through this mess. Problem is, Large Font support
should've been removed a loooonnnnngggg time ago.

Yes, I think it was implemented as fast solution for lazy informatic people.
But right way was going to tab Appearance and do 5 minutes changes
(enlarging) of font size and how it looks to user now.

Not only controls now look bad (text is kind of blurry), design is also not
good (our programs looks in that settings totally different).
I don't know that such a stupid idea stays so long. Also, I am wondering how
the largest company in world get this idea to pass.