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mouser:
mike - i completely understand your position.

please understand that i am not one of those developers who says, well because only a small percentage of people need a certain feature i will ignore.  the large font issue has come up several times before and it makes me very mad that it is so hard to fix properly(!).  one of the few areas that c++ builder really falls on its face. i have tried to fix it in the past and indeed i can make things a bit better but not solve it perfectly.

part of the problem is that my own personal aesthetics are for nice tight options without much blank space, which is part of what causes the problem.  maybe i should just give this up and use lots of blank space for option dialogs.

i have not given up on fixing this problem and i hope you will keep your eye open for when i do; it's just proven painfull enough that it's one of those things i tend to put in the back of my mind and plan to revisit when i stumble upon a good solution..

mike-in-nc:
please understand that i am not one of those developers who says, well because only a small percentage of people need a certain feature i will ignore.   ...
part of the problem is that my own personal aesthetics are for nice tight options without much blank space, which is part of what causes the problem.  maybe i should just give this up and use lots of blank space for option dialogs.-mouser (November 04, 2006, 09:32 AM)
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Mouser,

I'll take a look in a few months and see what you might have come up with.  I realize this is not trivial, and most of my programs (specialized for science) don't even attempt a GUI because it is a huge time sink.  However, my limited experience writing GUIs suggests that the only solution is been to leave more space (as you say) and then test repeatedly at several resolutions.  With larger fonts, text *does* take more space, no matter how that is measured (pixels, proportion, etc.).

Thanks for the reply, and best wishes,

...Mike

mike-in-nc:
Mouser,

An interesting possibility is "elastic form"

http://home.flash.net/~qsystems/

but I suspect you are already aware of that.  Unfortunately, it costs $$ (35).

Regards,
...Mike

mouser:
i do know about that and some others.. i might try them out again.. delphi and c++ builder actually have fairly nice resizing stuff, just not well suited to solving the large font issues.

what irks me is i'd think at the very least it would be possible to easily say: "don't use large fonts for this form" even if OS is set to default to large fonts.  that wouldn't by ideal for you large font lovers but at least it would make the forms usable.  maybe i just need to hunt around more for a way to do this programmatically..

mike-in-nc:
"don't use large fonts for this form" -mouser (November 04, 2006, 11:16 AM)
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One approach, but not one I could cheer about.  I use large fonts because I can't comfortably read the itty-bitty ones.

M

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