[Lazarus] Fonts Advise between Windows & Linux

Bogusław Brandys brandys at o2.pl
Mon Apr 14 10:53:28 CEST 2008


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> And also Windows has a "large fonts" options (see display options). Elderly
>> people frequently have "large fonts" enabled.
> 
> Or when you mistakenly bought a laptop with a 15.1" display with 
> resolution of 1920x1600. At 96 dpi things are *very* small. :-) But 
> changing Windows to 120 dpi cause many applications to be unusable, 
> because they hard-coded co-ordinates and sizes to 96 dpi. A very 
> frustrating experience! Nvida and ATI display control panels are big 
> culprits!!
> 
> 
> Regards,
>    - Graeme -
> 

Oh! So we should have also an advise how to code dialogs in Lazarus to 
be properly adjusted when DPI changed :-(
Comments, thoughts ?


Regards
Boguslaw



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