Comments on: High DPI makes for high bugs http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/ babblings of a computer loving fool Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: jrwren http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-29212 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:01:34 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/#comment-29212 Charles,

Yes, this was Live Writer Beta 2. Which, by the way, I used to post this post. I love it. It is awesome. My only complaint is with the setup wizard. Thanks for this awesome software.

]]> By: Charles Teague http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-29211 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:21:47 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/#comment-29211 I’m one of the devs on the Writer team. Interestingly, its really when you go to doing programmatic UI that you get burned. In general, in High DPI, Windows automatically scales controls and positions of controls even on drag and drop forms. It actually works pretty well in most cases, so long as anchoring and what not is set correctly.

In the case of our wizard, we’re dynamically adding and removing panels, and this causes issues for us since we need to explicitly manage the scaling. I thought we had those issues licked, but perhaps not. Are you running Beta 2 of Windows Live Writer (just released a few weeks ago)? I’ll double check that we’re handling scaling of this UI correctly so we have this fixed in an upcoming release…

Sorry that you ran into this!

-charles

]]> By: e http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-29178 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:30:23 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/#comment-29178 FWIW, I have seen those kinds of errors in GNOME. For some reason right now, one of my GNOME file chooser windows shows all of two, yes 2, file choices, and the brillant (sic) developer that designed this file chooser chose to make it not resizeable. Very annoying.

Glad you like the new lappy.

Good luck, and much love.

e.

]]> By: Collin http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-29165 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:02:30 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/06/28/high-dpi-makes-for-high-bugs/#comment-29165 $10 says those same windows devs would find the fixed layout stuff in glade or qtdesigner 😉

Bad coders will write bad code no matter what system you put them on – the tools for flowing layouts are readily available in Visual Studio, they just have to be used 🙂

]]>