Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Reawakening discussion on this patch.
Thread start:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-05/msg00177.html

This appears to help the strange DPI issue.

Though Gary had some concerns that it wasn't the ultimate fix, it does seem
to fix the issue.

If we get this committed, I'll redo the snapshot, and we will have an URL to
point people with this problem to.

Max.



Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I always used to have problems with the package selection page in
> setup.exe (on W2K, using a custom screen resolution of 144 dpi).  The
> package list never showed the vertical scrollbar.  In the current
> version the mouse wheel didn't work either (another patch coming), so
> I couldn't scroll the list at all.
>
> I tracked this down now to a font issue.  Turns out that the main
> window of the PropertySheet wizard uses the font alias "MS Shell Dlg"
> as its base font (as seen in the DLGTEMPLATE passed to
> PSCB_PRECREATE).  The individual pages use the font alias "MS Sans
> Serif" as set in the resource file.  With larger screen resolutions,
> this results in widely different ideas about the size of the dialog
> units that are used to measure dialogs and controls.  The result is
> that the vertical scrollbar of the list was outside of the clipping
> region that the main window had set up.
>
> The simplest fix was to change the font in the resource file (patch
> attached).  This is certainly better than the current situation, but I
> am not sure this is the best solution, as I am not sure that it is
> documented and garanteed that the wizard will use this specific font
> alias.
>
> Ideally we want either set the font for the main window to "MS Sans
> Serif" at an apropriate time (i.e. before dialog units are converted
> to pixel units), or in some other way synchronize the font for the
> individual sheets with the main window at runtime.  I have not found a
> simple way to do this yet, though.
>
> If there is interest I can at least provide the code that I used to
> check the font that the main window is using and to write that to the
> log file.
>
>
> so long, benny
>
>
> 2003-05-19  Benjamin Riefenstahl  <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
>
> * res.rc (all dialogs): Change font from "MS Sans Serif" to "MS
> Shell Dlg".