Windows allows me to set the font size of its text (e.g. in the window title bars and the menus) using a slider in Settings > Accessibility > Text size. I have an important GUI scripting program (written in AutoHotkey) that depends on keeping this font size the same; if the font size changes, then elements on the windows change position and my AutoHotkey script won't click on the correct controls.
However, I cannot tell how to specify this font size other than "the slider looks like it's one-fifth of the way across" or something vague like that. I need to change the font size temporarily but am not sure how I can put the slider back to exactly its current position.
How can I find out what the exact value of the setting of this slider, so I can reproduce it later? For example, is there some registry value that will store the setting of this slider?
I do not need the value to be accessible to my software; this is just so I, as a human, can try to slide the setting back to the way it was before, and if it is not exactly the same value as before, I want to be able to know whether I should nudge the slider up or down in order to get the same exact setting as previously.
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My VB.Net application is using anchoring to force certain controls to resize to their container, eg a list box on a form. This is all pretty standard and easy to do. However having just released the application into production I've found that on one user's computer the anchoring seems to just be ignored. She has Windows 7, as do I.
So far example what should look like this:
instead looks like this
I asked her to try a higher resolution on her screen but that didn't to help.
On one of them I was able to fix it by manually setting the width and height in form load properties of the control instead of anchoring it, but it seems a bit backward.
It looks to me like the form has been resized to be too small for the anchoring to work correctly. Set the .MinimumSize property of the form to ensure the form does not get too small for your layout.
Older staff sometimes reduce the screen dpi to make text easier to read, which means the screen may not be big enough to display the form. To fix this, set the screen dpi back to something reasonable and increase the text size for readability.
Turned out to be that the display issues were caused by user having the "Font Size" setting on her computer set to 200%. To be honest I didn't even know you could do that.
Every week I get some image updates from our graphic designer and often the sizes change. I am now bored of manually working out the size of the image and setting the button size to suit - a process I must follow to ensure the image is displayed at it's natural size for best quality.
Surely there must be a way in xcode to tell it to size the button to suit the background image?
Select the element in the storyboard and under the editor menu, you can select "size to fit content".
I'm sure this issue must have a very straightforward answer but I can't seem to find it. Any help is much appreciated.
Whenever a new item is added to the UI, either at runtime or dynamically once the program is running, it slides into view to reach its position (with inertia). Only when it reaches that point are certain properties applied: like transform properties or opacity values. For example, if a rectangle set to 50% opacity is added when a button is tapped, it will slide onto the screen about 30 points from its actual position at 100% opacity, reach the correct position and then change to the correct 50% opacity.
I would like to be able to turn off this default behavior so the rectangle appears immediately at the correct position with all the properties set.
I've found that I'm asking two separate questions and that both have been answered on this site (links below).
Individual objects can be targeted using the Transitions property under Miscellaneous in Visual Studio 2012.
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I have designed a form in VB.NET. At design time I have placed two buttons on it.
When I run it, the form size looks smaller and the buttons I have placed at the bottom are not visible. Also the alignment of the text and picture box is also different from what I set at design time.
Computer at which I am running the form is using a different resolution.
change the properties (F4) of the buttons: in ANCHOR put Bottom, Right
your buttons will be tied to the bottom and the right of the screen, instead of to the top, left, which is the default.
Grab the screen size at runtime with
Dim screen as System.Windows.Forms.Screen = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen
and using a scale factor depending on the current size (in design), scale the window to match. Check the coordinates of the buttons by hand to make sure they are not outside of the visible portion of the window.
You may not have to leave this feature in if you can debug it to the point that you know the exact resolution that you need.
When I am changing the font of a label to anything other than the default, the label's font never changes. I can change the font size but not the displaying font. However, when I double click on the label, I can see what the label's font would look like. Can anyone help me with this?
Not all fonts are available on the iPhone. If you are setting the font to an unavailable one, it will default to helvetica. Search the net for a list of the fonts you can use.
You can reference http://iosfonts.com/ for fonts available for each version of iOS. Fonts outside this list will appear as Helvetica, as jrturton said.
I would suggest expanding the size of the text box, by dragging its outermost edges? Despite having made your changes if the selected font/font size combo is to large for the text box to handle it will remain smaller than what you selected even though when you go into the highlight view it appears correct
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Just Because its in that font selection tool does not mean it will show up on the device