BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Need help with forms resolution errors          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Alistair George Guest Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:45 am    Post subject: Need help with forms resolution errors Hi All. I have a modal forms resolution/fonts problem. The mainform calls a modal form, which is an Options form for the program. Several users have complained of squeezed graphics/text and one has sent me a view of his screen capture: www.alistairgeorge.com/spamdelbad.jpg What it should look like is here: www.alistairgeorge.com/spamdelgood.jpg I have tried MPSautosize component, and a few other tricks, but the user says the visual remains the same. Most odd, because he is using WinXP and same resolution/fonts settings and myself. I have Arial as the font for this form. Any suggestions please? Tks, Alistair+ http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Back to top J French Guest Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:11 am    Post subject: Re: Need help with forms resolution errors On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:45:06 +1300, Alistair George <noname (AT) xtra (DOT) co.nz> wrote: Quote: Hi All. I have a modal forms resolution/fonts problem. The mainform calls a modal form, which is an Options form for the program. Several users have complained of squeezed graphics/text and one has sent me a view of his screen capture: www.alistairgeorge.com/spamdelbad.jpg What it should look like is here: www.alistairgeorge.com/spamdelgood.jpg I have tried MPSautosize component, and a few other tricks, but the user says the visual remains the same. Most odd, because he is using WinXP and same resolution/fonts settings and myself. I have Arial as the font for this form. Are you sure that this user is not using Large Fonts ? Back to top Jamie Guest Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help with forms resolution errors Alistair George wrote: Quote: Hi all. I have a user who reports screen corruption on a modal form (called by the mainform). His system graphics settings replicate my own, and has been reported by a few other users of my software. I have tried two computers to see if I can emulate but to no avail. Please see the attached JPG files to see what I mean. I have even tried placing an autosize component (MPSautosize) which makes no different to his graphics problem. Any suggestions please? Thanks vm. Alistair+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ looks like they are using Large fonts. you may want to use the scape property set to true in your modal form. Back to top Alistair George Guest Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help with forms resolution errors Jamie wrote: Quote: Alistair George wrote: Hi all. I have a user who reports screen corruption on a modal form (called by the mainform). His system graphics settings replicate my own, and has been reported by a few other users of my software. I have tried two computers to see if I can emulate but to no avail. Please see the attached JPG files to see what I mean. I have even tried placing an autosize component (MPSautosize) which makes no different to his graphics problem. Any suggestions please? Thanks vm. Alistair+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ looks like they are using Large fonts. you may want to use the scape property set to true in your modal form. I did try scaled:=true. He reports fonts 'medium' but where exactly in WinXP should the fonts be set as I agree - his looks like large. So he is obvioulsy going to desktop and getting properties which tell him Medium, but somewhere else in XP there may be another defining area? Tks, Alistair+ http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Back to top Jamie Guest Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:17 am    Post subject: Re: Need help with forms resolution errors Alistair George wrote: Quote: Jamie wrote: Alistair George wrote: looks like they are using Large fonts. you may want to use the scale property set to true in your modal form. I did try scaled:=true. He reports fonts 'medium' but where exactly in WinXP should the fonts be set as I agree - his looks like large. So he is obvioulsy going to desktop and getting properties which tell him Medium, but somewhere else in XP there may be another defining area? Tks, Alistair+ ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- i did find a problem in the forms.pas file where it sets the scale of the components at initiation time. my program would actually shrink the form on PC's in japanese font sets. the font was given to me to experiment with and i corrected the problem. it was a problem in the reporting of the font info verses how borland uses it to scale the controls. i posted the bug back in the days of D3, to date i don't think they have corrected it. i just simply modify that section of the forms.pas file how ever, you can only use this in non-runtime packages. the effects was causing a Japanese font using 96 DPI setttings (normal) to shrink the form due to an error in calculation. if you wish, i can dig up that code if you would like to look at it ? Back to top Alistair George Guest Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help with forms resolution errors Quote: uses it to scale the controls. i posted the bug back in the days of D3, to date i don't think they have corrected it. i just simply modify that section of the forms.pas file how ever, you can only use this in non-runtime packages. the effects was causing a Japanese font using 96 DPI setttings (normal) to shrink the form due to an error in calculation. if you wish, i can dig up that code if you would like to look at it ? Appreciate - but in non-runtime packages, does that mean you dont want me to use it in anything I distribute? 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