Re: Auto scaling dialogs

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:36:16 -0700

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You are correct that Resizable lib (and I thing the layout manager in MFC or
Xtreme Toolkit do not mess with the font. If it were me I would not want to
change the font size, but rather just the amount of re-estate the controls
take up so that it is maximized. I think modifying the font might be more
distracting and may end up making it smaller when the user had set it to be
larger in the system settings.

Tom

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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Chris H ha scritto:

I have seen some applications that seem to automatically scale the
dialog so that it fills the entire screen and shows exactly the same
buttons and text proportionally larger or smaller no matter the screen
size or resolution? How do they do that?

I'm not sure if this helps you, but there are some resizable dialog
classes on CodeProjects:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/resizabledialog.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/RPResizeDlg.aspx

This one uses WTL instead:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/wtl/layout_mgr.aspx

Unfortunately, none of these automatically increase the font size as the
dialog gets bigger. :-(

-- David

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