Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

[mscheuner]

I just downloaded and installed TCMD v11 Build 30 x64. But running it on Win7 is no fun - the configuration dialogs look awful all around, they're cutting off lots of settings (and I'm running at 100% font setting - no enlarged fonts!).

This needs to be fixed ASAP - I am going back to TCMD 8 for now, until v11 can be really used and configured properly.

I have a number of screenshots from my system, see them on my Skydrive:

http://cid-d06d619dc9f536d4.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/TakeCommand11/Configuration Dialogs

 

[dim]

On 2009-10-26 11:00, mscheuner wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed TCMD v11 Build 30 x64. But running it on Win7 is no fun - the configuration dialogs look awful all around, they're cutting off lots of settings (and I'm running at 100% font setting - no enlarged fonts!).

I can't reproduce this on Windows 7 x64, at least not in VMware. The dialogs look a bit flat, and the fonts are not antialiased, but no chopping off.

Are you by any chance running a German version of Windows 7? Maybe this has something to do with language settings... just a wild guess.

> I have a number of screenshots from my system, but unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow me to post that ZIP file (about 400KB).......

Post just one screenshot, that should be enough to show the effect. Just make sure to use PNG compression, or JPG with low-quality settings to minimize the size of the shot.

 

[mscheuner]

Are you by any chance running a German version of Windows 7? Maybe this has something to do with language settings... just a wild guess.

Nope, using Windows 7 Enterprise which is "MUI enabled", but I'm using just the plain basic US-English settings.

Post just one screenshot, that should be enough to show the effect.

Posted them all up on Skydrive - see my updated original post.

 

[dim]

I have a number of screenshots from my system, see them on my Skydrive:

http://cid-d06d619dc9f536d4.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/TakeCommand11/Configuration Dialogs

Hmm, Firefox chokes on those skydrive pages with an XML parsing error; these live.com sites really are IE-only :(

Anyway, the fonts in these dialogs are the so-called large fonts; I recognize the form immediately. I have no idea how these came to be enabled, but I also don't understand why the dialogs aren't auto-sized.

Can you please post the output of:

reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI" /v LogPixels

to check?

 

[rconn]

> I just downloaded and installed TCMD v11 Build 30 x64. But running it
> on Win7 is no fun - the configuration dialogs look awful all around,
> they're cutting off lots of settings (and I'm running at 100% font
> setting - no enlarged fonts!).
>
> This needs to be fixed ASAP - I am going back to TCMD 8 for now, until
> v11 can be really used and configured properly.

Not reproducible here (tried it on three systems).

There was one other report during the beta of this problem, but that user
was unable to reproduce it on any other system. Those dialogs are vanilla
Windows dialogs, nothing is being overridden or customized. So this is
likely to be (1) a Windows 7 bug, that is (2) system-specific. I suspect
that Windows is confused about whether it's supposed to be resizing the
dialogs for large fonts, and it ends up using large fonts but *not* resizing
the dialogs. Can you try forcing a font dpi change to something other than
the default to see if that clears up the internal confusion?

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Fross]

Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

Hello,

I was the guy that mentioned this previously. It works fine on my home
machine, but not on my notebook. I thought it was just me, but it sounds
like at least one other person is seeing this.

I'm running:

TCC 11.00.30 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]
TCC Build 30 Windows 7 Build 7600

on my Lenovo R500.

I'll try setting the font size to medium or larger (the default is
"smaller-100%") and report back.

Michael


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:54 AM, rconn <> wrote:

> Quote:
> > I just downloaded and installed TCMD v11 Build 30 x64. But running it
> > on Win7 is no fun - the configuration dialogs look awful all around,
> > they're cutting off lots of settings (and I'm running at 100% font
> > setting - no enlarged fonts!).
> >
> > This needs to be fixed ASAP - I am going back to TCMD 8 for now, until
> > v11 can be really used and configured properly.
> Not reproducible here (tried it on three systems).
>
> There was one other report during the beta of this problem, but that user
> was unable to reproduce it on any other system. Those dialogs are vanilla
> Windows dialogs, nothing is being overridden or customized. So this is
> likely to be (1) a Windows 7 bug, that is (2) system-specific. I suspect
> that Windows is confused about whether it's supposed to be resizing the
> dialogs for large fonts, and it ends up using large fonts but *not*
> resizing
> the dialogs. Can you try forcing a font dpi change to something other than
> the default to see if that clears up the internal confusion?
>
> Rex Conn
> JP Software
>
>
>

 

[Fross]

Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

Hello,

I changed the Control Planel / Display setting from Smaller-100% to
Medium-125%. After logging out and in (required) the option dialog box
opened correctly. After switching back, the same problem appeared.

Any thoughts?

Michael


TCC 11.00.30 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]
TCC Build 30 Windows 7 Build 7600


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, frossm <> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was the guy that mentioned this previously. It works fine on my home
> machine, but not on my notebook. I thought it was just me, but it sounds
> like at least one other person is seeing this.
>
> I'm running:
>
> TCC 11.00.30 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]
> TCC Build 30 Windows 7 Build 7600
>
> on my Lenovo R500.
>
> I'll try setting the font size to medium or larger (the default is
> "smaller-100%") and report back.
>
> Michael
>
>
>

 

[rconn]

Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

> I changed the Control Planel / Display setting from Smaller-100% to
> Medium-125%. After logging out and in (required) the option dialog box
> opened correctly. After switching back, the same problem appeared.
>
> Any thoughts?

First thought is that is DEFINITELY a Windows bug.

Second thought is to try a custom DPI setting (i.e., try 101% or 99%) and
see if that works.

 

[gschizas]

I can reproduce the ugly dialog boxes only in the 64-bit edition. 32-bit edition (on 64-bit Windows 7) shows proper buttons. 64-bit edition shows "Windows 95-like" buttons. Other than the ugliness though, dialogs seems to work ok.

I found out that the manifests of the exe files in 64-bit edition only have the trustInfo/security part, while the 32-bit files also have assemblyIdentity, description and dependency keys. I remember, from back in the Windows XP days, that when an application didn't display the new (then) rounded buttons, a .manifest file was all that was needed to "fix" the application. Unfortunately this doesn't work with files that already have a manifest, but perhaps the problem is related to the difference in the manifest resource.

 

[mscheuner]

Can you please post the output of:

Here's the output:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI\LogPixels
REG_DWORD 0x78


Does that help anything? My settings are to use standard fonts (100%) - no enlarged fonts or anything.

 

[mscheuner]

This seems to have been fixed with Build 31 - everything looks ok, in terms of sizing of the "Options" dialogs.

Thanks!
Marc

 

[dim]

On 2009-10-29 09:35, mscheuner wrote:

> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI\LogPixels
> REG_DWORD 0x78
>
>
> Does that help anything? My settings are to use standard fonts (100%) - no enlarged fonts or anything.

Yes, 0x78 = 120 DPI, which usually corresponds to the "large font"
setting in Windows. The normal setting is 96 DPI (which would give 0x60
for the LogPixels value).

E.g. in some way you managed to select a larger DPI, but without
apparently switching your normal system fonts?

 

[Fross]

Re: Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

Interesting. I checked it on my working machine and it is indeed set to
60. I checked on my broken machine and it is set to 78. However, both have
the same "Smaller - 100%" setting in the control panel display dialog.

My "78" machine is a notebook, but I couldn't see how that would matter.
Regardless, they both work correctly with build 31.

Regards and thanks for all the help.

Michael


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:19 AM, dim <> wrote:

> On 2009-10-29 09:35, mscheuner wrote:
>
> Quote:
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI\LogPixels
> > REG_DWORD 0x78
> >
> >
> > Does that help anything? My settings are to use standard fonts (100%) -
> no enlarged fonts or anything.
> Yes, 0x78 = 120 DPI, which usually corresponds to the "large font"
> setting in Windows. The normal setting is 96 DPI (which would give 0x60
> for the LogPixels value).
>
> E.g. in some way you managed to select a larger DPI, but without
> apparently switching your normal system fonts?
>
>
>

 

[rconn]

> ---Quote (Originally by dim)---
> Can you please post the output of:
> ---End Quote---
> Here's the output:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI\LogPixels
> REG_DWORD 0x78
>
>
> Does that help anything? My settings are to use standard fonts (100%) -
> no enlarged fonts or anything.

That is definitely the wrong setting (that's large fonts, 120dpi). The
change in build 31 was to fix a different bug (Windows 7 using the wrong
common control), but even if it's (mysteriously) working with that setting
you should change it back to 0x60 to avoid other (as yet unknown?) potential
conflicts.

 

[dim]

Re: Configuration dialogs in TCMD 11 look horrible on Win7

On 2009-10-29 13:10, frossm wrote:

> Interesting. I checked it on my working machine and it is indeed set to
> 60. I checked on my broken machine and it is set to 78. However, both have
> the same "Smaller - 100%" setting in the control panel display dialog.

It looks like Windows 7, and possibly Vista, are capable of using
per-user DPI settings. Can you check the output of:

reg query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels

? This should contain your 'personal' DPI setting.