Re: Displayed fonts on new wide-screen monitors

Pardon me if this is the wrong NG, I've not had to check into an MS
newsgroup for display issues before.

I have an application written in Xbase++ which explicitly defines screen
fonts it uses. It's worked on every client where I've installed it - until
now. I just bought a Dell E1305 laptop with wide screen, high res, XP Media
edition. It uses a Radeon X1400 display adapter. Well, my fonts are not
what I am explicitly defining (8.Tahoma). They are too large. I've checked
and all fonts are defined. This is irrespective of the "Font Size" in the
display settings, which only affect menus and dialog captions. Not only are
fonts wrong, but graphic items like the boxes in checkboxes are too large,
too.

My desktop machine uses an NVidia adapter and all is fine. I've checked
every setting between the two I can think of to make sure they are the
same.

I'll reply to my own email with screen shots so you can see what I am
talking about.

I just don't know where to look - display adapter settings, XP Media
edition (desktop uses XP Pro), what?

Sounds like it could be a high-DPI issue using large fonts. Check [ Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced ->
General ] for the DPI setting. I would assume your other installations are using 96 DPI where as the new laptop screen
uses 120 DPI.
Hope this helps,

Mike


- Microsoft Visual Basic MVP -
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