Total Commander

Hi,

On Windows XP the standard desktop font was Microsoft Sans Serif, 9. On Windows 7 and 10 it is Segoe UI, 9.
As time goes, people are using bigger monitors, 22-24" is nowadays a standard. With bigger monitors the font is often enlarged from 9 to 10, leaving DPI on 96. E.g. the standard setup in our company (300+ people) is 24" monitor, 1920x1200, 96 DPI, Windows 7/10 configured with Segoe UI, 10 font.

When I configure dialog box font in TC to Segoe UI, 10, many dialogs look broken - controls overlapping, misaligned etc.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zls18ndb2sep7p5/screenshot1.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8q8oal6f4ae4ssy/screenshot2.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1xzgaz4gd6rbge/screenshot3.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qm8vus5k71xr0g7/screenshot4.png?dl=0

Being a UI developer myself, I understand it is difficult to optimize application layout for every possible font. But again - I believe size 10 fonts are becoming more common nowadays on 22"+ monitors. The misalignment is often subtle - couple of pixels. You would make a lot of customers happy by correcting UI controls placement for size 10 fonts.

thanks, Michal

You can increase the dialog box using OverrideDPI.
Configuration->Options->Fonts
Dialog box scaling(does not scale the main window):
[x] Set dots per Inch (DPI) to: [107] (10/9*96)

Important: set the "dialog box font" to "Segoe UI,9" (the font will be scaled by the same amount as the dialog box)

Regards
Holger

Indeed the dialog boxes are NOT scaled with fonts! This is intentional. Please use size 8 or 9 (depending on the used font, some are too small in 8, some too large in 9) and then scaling as HolgerK suggested.

The trick with DPI 107 worked. There are still some imperfections, but overall the look is better.
thanks a lot, Michal

One more thing - I noticed the background transfer dialog does not scale with DPI like the rest of dialogs.
It's possibly a bug.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqwv3y2o0yaoqg5/scaled.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h8bshvqvl6tp6xb/notscaled.png?dl=0

Michal

It's a Windows API dialog, not Delphi/Lazarus dialog, because it's invoked from a background threads. Delphi/Lazarus dialogs are not thread safe. System dialogs are unfortunately not scalable, they are scaled by the current Windows DPI settings.