rehash of old Q: why does XPE mess with the display of our apps

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Gareth Pye

i've asked this a while ago and i didn't get any answers that seamed
to solve it so i'm asking again in the hope that someone now knows.

All of our programs that we write display perfectly under XP pro/home
but on XPE they always display to small, this isn't a resolution issue
as even small dialog boxes do this. We write our software in Borland
Builder (c++ and delphi) and it seams that on XPE the size of the
window that is drawn is significantly smaller than the one the program
works with, as in when the position of something is anchored to the
bottom right hand corner and you resize the window it moves around as
if the corner of the window was actualy 20 or 30 pixels further away
in both directions.

It doesn't happen when we use alignments just when we are useing
anchors. Although even when we use alignments the program when it
initialy runs is significantly smaller than it was during design.

Does anyone have any ideas on this problem, or are we the only people
to have seen this problem
 
Gareth said:
i've asked this a while ago and i didn't get any answers that seamed
to solve it so i'm asking again in the hope that someone now knows.

All of our programs that we write display perfectly under XP pro/home
but on XPE they always display to small, this isn't a resolution issue
as even small dialog boxes do this. We write our software in Borland
Builder (c++ and delphi) and it seams that on XPE the size of the
window that is drawn is significantly smaller than the one the program
works with, as in when the position of something is anchored to the
bottom right hand corner and you resize the window it moves around as
if the corner of the window was actualy 20 or 30 pixels further away
in both directions.

It doesn't happen when we use alignments just when we are useing
anchors. Although even when we use alignments the program when it
initialy runs is significantly smaller than it was during design.

Does anyone have any ideas on this problem, or are we the only people
to have seen this problem
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Are you sure you have the correct fonts included? I've had problems in the
past with dialog boxes looking really odd until I add the correct fonts to
the build.
 
Its not that text isn't fitting in where it should, but that objects
like graphs and tables and frames etc aren't fitting in the window
 
We found that the way to fix this was to use align to client and such
in borland, this is rather anoying as it can make creating a gui much
slower and anoying, but at least we don't have to compile for xpe with
large fudge factors included.
 
Gareth,

Resolution has been a issue and differently for everyone , much
sorted out
but there still lays few extremes that were compromised by everyone
,prob if not others i surely did..for me , i still guess that the
drivers were of major problem coz' i couldn't find anything wrong with
the fonts etc.. .Replaced the graphics drivers with ATI Radeon and got
the stuff working.Never looked into it again.

Regards,
Kesavan
 
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