Paul, I also have a 22" monitor, but I have had it for ages, well before Legacy 7.4. and this problem. If I uncheck "stretch fonts when resizing", the pop-up boxes are readable, but the font size on the screen is too small for me to read comfortably.
Yes - a minor issue, but still irritating. Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 6:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Pop up boxes squished Hi all, I believe this is monitor size and resolution dependent. I have a laptop (15.6 " 1280X800) and using this screen, I have no issues. When I connect my laptop to a large external monitor (22" 1680X1050) I have the squished pop-up boxes. The only thing that is changing is the monitor, my legacy settings and windows settings are identical. I have Options-Customize-Fonts set to default values, and "Stretch Fonts when resizing" is checked (I do resize fonts). My Windows settings for DPI size is 100% (96DPI). I believe the issue has to do with how and when Legacy 'stretches fonts', On the large monitor, depending upon which tab I set Legacy to start in (Family, Pedigree, Descendant, or Index) I get slightly different 'stretching'. If I start in the index tab, the fonts are about twice the size that they are if I did not have 'stretching selected' I believe this is because the fonts are being stretched to 'fill' one line on the screen grid. If I then switch to the family tab, the fonts stay the same size and are quite small in relation to the size of the data boxes in the family view. With these smaller fonts, the pop-up boxes display just fine. If I then minimize/maximise the family view, the fonts become very large, because in family view since there are only a fixed number of boxes on the screen, and the monitor is large, so each box is quite large. (in this case, the pop-up boxes are fine since there is an intervening minimize/maximize). If I start in family view (my normal setting), the fonts are very large to start with because the text boxes are large to start with. The pop-boxes are squished. So, the bottom line is that the screen fonts can be of varying sizes on the same screen depending upon how one got to that screen. It would appear that if one starts in family view (and probably many users do), the screen fonts can be quite large on a large monitor. However, whatever logic is used to calculate the pop-up box size seems to be 'unaware' of the size of the font on screen. But, this will only be an issue if the screen fonts are large enough that they do not fit in whatever the minimum (or default) pop-up box size. However, in the end I think it's a pretty minor issue. I don't find a quick minimize/maximize in family view once per session that big a deal. Paul Gray -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February-22-10 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pop up boxes squished Wm, The font size Legacy uses is based on the height of the window not on the width of the screen. If you make any screen in Legacy too narrow for all the text on a line to show then the line will be truncated at the end of the screen. It is very difficult to calculate a font size based on the width of the screen because each line will contain a different number of characters and, with variable width fonts, the width of the letters is not a constant value. The pop up box for the parent section uses the width of the parent box. For children the pop up can use more width because the area for the children list is larger. My interpretation of the "squished" in this subject is that some people are seeing either a situation where the lines in the pop up boxes are not fully visible because the top or the bottom of the fonts are not displayed or where there is an overlap between lines because the space between the lines in the pop up is insufficient. I have not been able to duplicate that problem. Every time I change the height of my Legacy family view to change the font size in the family view then try to open the pop up boxes the font size in the pop up box matches the font size in the family view. I did see some cases where the space between lines was much larger than the standard but in no cases were the lines overlapped nor were there cases where the font height was too large for the lines. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Wm Voss wrote: > The pop-up boxes for children are of a set width, ie at 1/4 screen > size, they still remain the same size as if at full screen. The parent > pop-ups, however, contract according to the screen width -- at 1/4 > screen the text lines of long names and locations run off the box. > Just some bad coding that needs attention. > > Wm Voss Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
