Windows fonts size and eJukebox...
Pirk - 9-7-2004 at 02:34 PM
Audiosoft,
I've recently bought a 17" LCD screen. It is great and eJukebox looks good on it.
The native resolution of my new screen is 1280x1024 (it's the only one which looks good for Windows applications), but feeling that Windows fonts
was a bit too small to be confortable (unfortunatly my eyesight is not so good than when i was younger... really!), i've increased them a bit in
the display control panel. Since that everything is perfect in all Windows applications... Great! 
...Until i want to run eJukebox:
It bluntly refuse to start! and just display a alert box seeing that i must put back the default font size... 
I hope that eJukebox v4.0 will not have a such limitation, and will works in total symbiosis with the Windows display options, or at least tolerate
any font size changing...
Thanks!
Audiosoft - 9-8-2004 at 10:35 AM
Sorry Pirk don't count on this one getting fixed for v4.0.
Most people do not realize that changing the Windows Display DPI Setting (i.e. Large Fonts) to anything other than the Normal 96 DPI results in more
than just changing of font sizes....it also effects the way the interfaces of windows programs are sized and spaced out. Some programs can handle this
but eJukebox's interface is so complex that it can't handle anything but 96 DPI...otherwise the panels in eJukebox do not lineup and there
is not enough room so text and graphics get stretched and cut off...so eJukebox displays the message to change the Windows DPI setting to the normal
96.
If you need bigger fonts we recommend changing the individual font sizes under:
Control Panel --> Display --> Appearance Tab --> Advanced button
Pirk - 9-8-2004 at 01:45 PM
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Message original : Audiosoft
If you need bigger fonts we recommend changing the individual font sizes under:
Control Panel --> Display --> Appearance Tab --> Advanced button |
Thanks for your advise Audiosoft, i've already tried this way too, but it's not so efficient... The range is very very limited: only the
menus can be changed using this method!
Do you think you can flood the market with a program that restrict the Windows options? Seriously!
So, rather than a alert box, if it's not possible to handle correctly the DPI settings in eJukebox, i think that would be more suitable if you
could simply IGNORE them... No?
Audiosoft - 9-9-2004 at 02:08 AM
Pirk,
Using 'Larger 120 DPI' is a trouble some issue because it does not simply change font size - it increases the size of all windows forms,
controls, scrollbars, and icons by 25% (for example: the icons on the windows taskbar don't look as smooth with Large Fonts 120 DPI enabled as
the icons are stretched 25%)....because of the 25% increase in DPI....enabling it basically corrupts the eJukebox interface and makes the panels and
graphics no longer line up correctly because all the elements are supposed to be 25% larger....check out this 'Large Fonts' website for more
info on what Large Fonts actually does and what it was originally intended for: http://www.divsoft.com/lfs/
There is still a chance we may be able to get it fixed under a version of v4.0 once we have eJukebox totally resizable in width and height...and have
html based play controls and main buttons...but it is still going to take allot of additional programming.
Attached is an image of how eJukebox currently looks with Large Fonts enabled....because of the 25% increase in pixels per inch: one thing eJukebox
can't figure out is if it is supposed to be 1024 or 800 pixels in width...which results in elements of the interface not matching up....this is
why eJukebox prompts the user to switch to the standard 96 dpi display setting.
Pirk - 9-9-2004 at 09:52 AM
OK Audiosoft, sorry for the "hell" because of the DPI settings...
I will try again the other method which increase only the fonts, and does not interfere with eJukebox!
But notice that the increasing of all the windows elements didn't bother me since i feel things appear a bit to small on the LCD screens in
comparison to CRT screens... (i don't know if you have already worked with a LCD screen?), and as we can't properly change the real
resolution because of LCD technology... that was a way out for me!
Thanks for your explanations.
Fishy - 9-10-2004 at 12:11 AM
CPirk: I've been running at 1600x1200 for about 3 years now, 1 of them with ejukebox. And I can still judge if a girl is good looking on at least
1 foot distance 
... Would love to see albumcovers get larger in physical size within the program.. But everything else looks readable and nice to me, actually.. Maybe
some dis file editing could help things out for you?
Don't know, maybe just luck, noone in my family has had the need for glasses before they turned 40 and I read a lot of text each day.. I Would
love to know why some research articles and books sometimes are printed in the smallest font possible... Those are the people which will get blamed
for my blurred sight in a few years... Compared, the computer monitor often feels like a blessing.. Even at high resoultions like 1600x1200 and
1280x1024, when things tends to get a bit tiny..
Congrats with your new LCD by the way You got to feel like a proud daddy or something? 
Pirk - 9-10-2004 at 02:00 PM
Fishy,
My problem is not when i use eJukebox... the dis files fulfil their function!!!
It's when i use any program in Windows environment... if i don't fix the font sizes, things are too small! (to my taste...) It's a
paradox for a screen which have the same surface area than a 19" CRT screen!
I don't know if you have already worked on a LCD monitor? It's different from a CRT monitor... images appear very clear and precise but
texts to small!
Otherwise, yes i'm proud, but not daddy... as i know?