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Re: [WIN] screen resolution problem

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 24, 2001
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Derek, how do you get the screen pixel dimensions?


...george

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: [WIN] screen resolution problem


>
> I'm guessing the problem is that text is measured in points not pixels.
And
> the size of pixel changes with screen resolution and physical dimension of
> the screen.
>
> You might need to recalculate the point size needed by calling
> getTextExtent() for a given piece of text and seeing how many actual pixel
> it takes up. Then adjusting the point size via setFont() until the text
fits
> into the control area.
>
> Alternately, make the controls a few pixels bigger than the minimum
needed.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joshua goldberg" <futures8 at bellsouth.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:08 PM
> Subject: [WIN] screen resolution problem
>
>
> >
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I've developed a program which call Win32Lib routines. Works and looks
> fine on the machine on which it was devloped (19 inch monitor; set to
> 1024/768 resolution).
> > when the  program is moved to a system (also Win 98) with a 14 inch
> monitor set to 648/480, the type face appears to be quite a bit larger,
even
> overrunning the
> > boundaries of the PushBttons and the Lists in which data is displayed.
The
> text on various screens is also no longer properly centered.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions to avoid this? Any suggestions
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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