I was at a conference yesterday where some software I had built was being
demo'd, and the presenter had his monitor turned up to 1600x1200 with the
Large Fonts option on. Ugly as sin and hard to use, but even uglier than
Windows was what it did to my control layouts: text gets clipped, menus
appear cramped and overlapping, etc.
In order to put the Made for Windows logo on your box you need to gracefully
support Large Fonts (and a few other things). Given that the apporpriate
behavior for an app is to resize controls to match the font setting,
effectively you'd get pretty much the same result ('cept for the size of the
drag bar) by simply turning one's resolution down. But logic aside, people
will continue to use this "feature", and we need a strategy to deal with it.
Aside from getting the formattedWidth of each control on every card in every
window, are there other ways to deal with Large Fonts? With VB, the
resizing seems to happen automatically.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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