[APBeta] Report

[Paul Rodman]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 06:29 , Jeff Shy wrote:

> Paul - some comments below.
>
> Question: are you using the "Large Fonts" option on Windows? I suspect
> so. This feature will probably be the death of me :^) I will see what
> I can do about taking it into account, but only later in the
> development process.
>
> JRS - I was not using large fonts, but I was using a feature under  
> Display Properties, Settings, Advanced called DPI setting.  I has it  
> set to large size (120 dpi) rather than normal (96 dpi).  I turned  
> that off and all seemed to look fine.  I then turned on Large  
> Fonts.  That didn't really seem to cause much of a problem.  It  
> mostly makes the fonts bigger in the title bar, but not much  
> anywhere else.  I think you can just tell your users that you don't  
> support the 120 dpi feature for now.

What you can do, in order to make AP usable on Windows with 120dpi  
fonts, is use the internal GUI font size feature of AP (Preferences- 
 >General) and reduce the font size for AP-only. I just tried that and  
it works (largely) if you set the GUI font size to System - 9 (small)  
and System - 11 (large). Some widgets are not complying, but that's  
just (sic) a bug, which I will fix.

What I can consider is doing that automatically (i.e. adjust the font  
size so that labels fit, etc.). What is much more difficult (but not  
impossible) is adjusting the size of the GUI widgets to fit the font.

Paul R.