Zugg Software :: View topic - [2.02] Import from zMUD - can't see OK button with large size DPI (120 DPI)

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

As I had some eye problems recently I switched to using Large size DPI (120 DPI) (the standard Windows setting in Control Panel, Display, Settings, Advanced (General tab), Display, DPI setting). I know there are expected to be issues with this, but I thought I'd mention the problems anyway:-

On the first dialog called "Transfer sessions from zMUD", the OK button is off the side of the dialog and so invisible. Making the dialog wider just causes the Cancel button to move to the right and the OK button is still not visible.

The workaround is to press Tab twice and then press Enter.

The next dialog has almost the same problem (Cancel and Import not showing) except that if you make it wider the missing buttons do come into view.

As a bit of an aside, the corner of those dialogs looks like it is resizeable but it is not! (The mouse cursor even changes!)

[Edit: Changed "large fonts" to "large size DPI". The workaround to this problem I discovered is to use Large Fonts (in the Appearance tab of Control Panel, Display) instead of Large size DPI.]

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:15 am

There will be lots of problems with large fonts. Most of CMUD is not tested on large fonts. It's one of those things that I do later in development when I'm tweaking, and not when I'm still fixing major bugs.

And yes, the status bar corner doesn't allow resizing...you have to move the mouse over the actual corner of the window. It's a problem with the Developer Express StatusBar control that I need to update.

Anyway, if you want to post all of the large font problems that you find to this topic, that might help me in the future when I go through to fix stuff. But it's not going to happen for a while.