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>will
\n> p_duanra wrote:
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\n> > > > Curious, is the GUI text scalable in MS-Vista?
\n> > >
\n> > > I did see something relating to this last week, but I've
\n> > > blanked out the details. I believe there's the same
\n> > > Normal/Large/Extra Large font size thing, but the DPI
\n> > > setting for the display has grown a tick box to tell it
\n> > > to sort out apps which are ignorant. If I'm remembering
\n> > > correctly (I'll check when I can), this means it'll scale
\n> > > for a T221's DPI, but it's not as tweakable as I'd hope.
\n> > > I've not experimented, though.
\n> >
\n> > >From what I heard in an interview some time ago on channel 9
\n> > (http://channel9.msdn.com/) <http://channel9.msdn.com/%29> there
\n
> > be the standard 96 dpiwhile: :)
\n> > setting without scaling and a x1.5 and x2.0 scaling available.
\n> > So for the T221 owners, this means that we will be able to
\n> > use Vista with an interface really set to about 200dpi. Not
\n> > just the fonts.
\n> >
\n> > Pierre
\n>
\n> A perspective from a programmer who hasn't dealt with this in a
\n
>I've just had a peek on a Vista box. Underneath the dpi setting
\n> With Windows 2000 (and 95, 98, and XP), you can set the text
\n> scaling to 200 DPI (208%). What doesn't happen at the moment
\n> is scaling of images or other decorations. It'll be interesting
\n> to see if MS can fix it in Vista, because there are underlying
\n> issues with the Windows API that make it harder. For example,
\n> you can specify font sizes in points or in pixels. If you want
\n> some text to sit on a custom bitmap, then you would ask for e.g.
\n> 10-pixel high text. You can also specify the position of
\n> window elements in pixels, points, or "dialog units", which I
\n> believe scale with the font size selection. Until all the
\n> graphics are done in a scalable format such as svg, and programs
\n> are converted to use some percentage of window size to define the
\n> placement and scaling of visual elements, I think this will
\n> continue to be a problem.
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