Tripredacus Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 I have run into a situation where a set of programs are not showing controls properly on a certain display. The particulars are that the "top" parameter of GUICtrlCreateCheckbox needs to be increased on this display, because otherwise the objects are too close together. On other GUI panels this happens, radio buttons, etc, they are not spaced evenly as would be expected, since I am specifying values, it should respect that. This particular GUI will read an INI file and generate checkboxes for the amount of items in the INI: For $i = 1 To $Sections[0] $SectionContents = IniReadSection($source, $Sections[$i]) $topPart = (60 + ($i * 15)) $Radio[$i] = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox($Sections[$i], 80, $topPart, 300, 17) It is expected that it should appear with a spacing similar to this (old image): Which it does (albeit in a Windows 10 UI get-up) on every other sytem I work with. BUT this one system is showing something different. A sideby side of the initial look, and the with a box checked and a mouse hovering (which makes the ctrl labels shift over/under each other). OH and the mouse cursor looks bigger than usual... I can increase the value I am multiplying by, say 25 instead of 15 and it will look properly on this one display, BUT then it spaces things out too much on everything else. Are the pixels wrong on this display? Is there some other way I should be making GUIs on Windows 10 based systems? I will note that I've seen this happen before, but it went uncorrected. The system I am seeing this on is a Clevo N850EJ. Specs are as follows: 15.6” IPS Full HD (1920x1080) Matte Display Switchable GPU by Microsoft Hybrid Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU / Intel UHD Graphics The OS I am running on is Windows PE 10 x64. Can't tell which video device is driving the display, both are detected and both are using the MS driver. Let me know if anyone has an idea of why this happens, or ways people have fixed it, etc. Thanks! Twitter | MSFN | VGCollect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Do you use display zoom on the computer it looks bad on? If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AutoBert Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 Just test the DPI of the monitor: $iAppDPI = RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics', 'AppliedDPI') ConsoleWrite($iAppDPI&@CRLF) and calculate the position of your controls. BrewManNH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 15, 2018 Author Share Posted June 15, 2018 It is showing me 144 for AppliedDPI, How can I use this information? Setting the process DPI aware, or using these GDI functions have no effect. https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/166479-writing-dpi-awareness-app-workaround/ @BrewManNH This is in Windows PE, so a lot of normal things may not be viable. For example, there is no real way to make display changes because you can't reload explorer... also there is no explorer. Twitter | MSFN | VGCollect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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