Re: draw image as per system DPI setting

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:12:49 -0700
Message-ID:
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"heavenlysmile" <heavenlysmile@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBE7722F-1BB7-4E6B-B5EF-9142D6766E63@microsoft.com...

I have an issues related to loading and drawing the bitmap.
I have an mfc application mfc with transparent ctrlbutton. I have bitmap
file with 96 dpi resolution, but if i chage the system setting to 120 dpi
,
image does not appear proper on the dialog box. I used stretchblt to
resolve
the issue , but at the same time, image loading on control button (to make
it
transparent i used bitblt) does not show properly.

Is there any function in VC to get the current screen resolution and draw
the bitmap accordingly ?


It's been a few years, but here's some code that I copied from an old
project:

// Call from a CWnd derived class
CClientDC dc(this);
int nLogicalPixelsX = dc.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSX); // will be 96 for
small fonts (default)
int nLogicalPixelsY = dc.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY); // will be 72 for
small fonts (default)?

This might work to scale the bitmap size to the current dpi returned by
these functions. But I also wanted to keep my dialog the same width and
height no matter the dpi, so I resize it to the original size and reduce
font size for larger dpi so my text fit on my dialog. I tried the above
calculations to determine the font size, but it did not work in Japanese on
WinME (and Korean also was hard). I ended up not using the above and
instead:

    if ( HIWORD(GetDialogBaseUnits()) != 16 )
    {
        lf.lfHeight = MulDiv(lf.lfHeight, 16, HIWORD(GetDialogBaseUnits()));
        // Round up
        if (lf.lfHeight < 0)
            lf.lfHeight--;
        else
            lf.lfHeight++;
    }

You may not be concerned about keeping your dialog the same size in larger
dpi, if so ignore the above.

-- David

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