On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
- I first thought it was dpi related, but setting Linux to run at 96 dpi
and Windows to 96 dpi there is still a size difference. Windows 8 point =
Linux 10 point. Why?
And here is the exact same issue shown using a web page with CSS.
http://jongrieve.net/faq/dcss/
So the issue is wide spread, but still I don't know why. Also does that mean
I need to apply the same font size hack as the guy in the CSS article.
eg:
ifdef MacOS
NormalFontSize = 13
elseif Windows
NormalFontSize = 8
elseif Linux
NormalFontSize = 10
else
NormalFontSize = 8 // ??? What would be correct as a default?
Label.Font.Size = NormalFontSize;
Yuck!!!! Imagine that all over your code? Is the ifdef part could be done
in some Constants.pas unit and used globally in your application, but still
it feels like a hack. Not to mention it makes GUI design a lot more difficult
if the same form is edited on various platforms.
Even single platform it is a mess if you work e.g. in team. My windows DPI is
different from the one from my collega, and when I open his files or vice
versa, the .dfm files of delphi are all messed up. What will happen at the
client, is even more of a mystery... This has been plagueing us since day 1.
Michael.
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