[perl-win32-gui-users] DPI and fonts

2006-03-21 Thread Greg Dance
I have a win-32 program I have used for a long time. Some users are adjusting their monitor settings to increase the DPI for fonts to make text larger when they move the monitor further from their eyes. Normal is apparently 96 and large is 120, but the user can customize it to about any value. Ha

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] timers and threads

2006-03-21 Thread Robert May
Jeremy White wrote: [edited] Does anyone know why the system hangs with no reaction if I use sleep 10; in a Win_OnTimer subroutine? The system hangs because it's sleeping:) Basically, your app isn't processing any events, therefore giving the impression that it's hung. If I want to create

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] timers

2006-03-21 Thread Jeremy White
Does anyone know why the system hangs with no reaction if I use sleep 10; in a Win_OnTimer subroutine? It sleeps for 10 seconds, and I cannot even close the program in those 10 seconds. Then the program works fine again until the timer runs again that function. The system hangs because it's

[perl-win32-gui-users] timers

2006-03-21 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, Does anyone know why the system hangs with no reaction if I use sleep 10; in a Win_OnTimer subroutine? It sleeps for 10 seconds, and I cannot even close the program in those 10 seconds. Then the program works fine again until the timer runs again that function. I want to use sleep() just