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Disabling font size contol by Windows in an application

The small fonts / large fonts option in the Control Panel / display properties/ settings prodcues weird results in my application. How can I disable it?

(This time I promise to hit the right button to give credit where it is due ;-)

Lischke

Sorry to say that, but you try to work on the wrong end. What would happen when every developer disables a feature of Windows just to have its program correctly running? You should design your application good enough so that it runs perfectly with every font size. I know this is hard (we had to hack VCL units to got it as we needed it), but by leaving enough space for each label etc. it is possible to maintain a proper layout.

Ciao, Mike

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Lischke

Epsylon, Epsylon, ts, ts, ts ... Your suggestion is neither an answer to the question here nor does it solve the problem with different font sizes. Property Scaled is only useful for windows to scale to specific sizes, but not for fonts.

Ciao, Mike

michaelhiggins

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The problem that I have is the rather irregular reaction of the different components of my program, to the different sizes of fonts. If I could detect when large fonts has been selected then I could perhaps cope with it.

Michael

Epsylon

It solves the Small/Large font problem. Am I missing something???????

michaelhiggins

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The problem is *How* to detect if small or large fonts have been selected. Is there some flag i can use?

Michael

Epsylon

You can use TForm.PixelsPerInch to determine this

Small font: 96
Large font: 120

Eps.

Epsylon

Remind that there are more possibilities since you can set any fontsize using the 'Other' option in Display properties > Settings > Advanced.

Epsylon

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