Scaling and layout Setting in W10 is Increasing Image Size

[toecutter]

I dump a snipping tool snip into a picturebox but it is zooming in due the the default increased text size setting in W10.

If i manually change the setting to 100% users then complain they cannot see icons and text as all are to small.

How do i handle this issue?

[jdc2000]

It might help if you gave a little more explanation about exactly what you are trying to accomplish. You are taking a screen capture of part or all of a user's screen. What are you going to use that for after you display it in a picture box? There may be several possible alternative options, if we knew more about the use of the captured image.

[toecutter]

The screen snip is of either a google earth view [eg a roof] or a pdf file [eg floor plan] so it isn't the users screen, it can be what ever size the snipping tool allows and what boundary the user places the rectangle around.

Currently when its dumped it ends up inserting zoomed by whatever the W10 setting is at which could be 125 - 150 or more percent so it ends up outside of the picture bounds.

This is only happening in W10.

[passel]

How are you getting the captured image into the picturebox? Could you set the picturbox's SizeMode to "Zoom" so that it auto-scales the image proportionally to fit the picturebox, or do you want to resize the picturebox to fit the image, or something else?

[toecutter]

I tried all the different pictuerbox options and i have to have set at normal to work correctly. I also cannot change the perspective of the image as app is construction software so there are issues with changing dimensions of items on the pdf file.

I believe i have to handle the W10 users different settings some how..


I just check clipboard contains image and dump.

If Clipboard.ContainsImage = True Then
            Form1.ToolStripMenuItem1.Enabled = True
            Form1._handler.ignoreClick = True
             Dim img As New Bitmap(Clipboard.GetImage)
            Dim newWidth As Integer = img.Width
            Dim newHeight As Integer = img.Height
            Dim img2 As New Bitmap(img, New Size(newWidth, newHeight))
            Form1._handler.setImage(img2)
End IF

[4x2y]

Do you want to add scroll capability to the PictureBox? If so then add the PictureBox into a Panel container with AutoScroll = True

Try this

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
 
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Panel1.AutoScroll = True
        PictureBox1.Parent = Panel1
        PictureBox1.Location = New Point(0, 0)
        PictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If Clipboard.ContainsImage Then
            PictureBox1.Image = Clipboard.GetImage
        End If
    End Sub
 
End Class

[toecutter]

Do you want to add scroll capability to the PictureBox? If so then add the PictureBox into a Panel container with AutoScroll = True

Try this

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
 
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Panel1.AutoScroll = True
        PictureBox1.Parent = Panel1
        PictureBox1.Location = New Point(0, 0)
        PictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If Clipboard.ContainsImage Then
            PictureBox1.Image = Clipboard.GetImage
        End If
    End Sub
 
End Class

Cannot use any of those thx

I dont have an issue setting the picturebox properties, this is an issue with W10, by default Scale is NOT set at 100% because they use some weird scaling.

I believe i have to get the users current scale setting and somehow handle the snip as its being dumped into the app.

This is the setting that is causing my issue..

[4x2y]

Sorry, i cannot understand what is the relation between that setting and scaling a PictureBox content? Can you post a screenshot illustrate the problem?

[passel]

You've mentioned Picturebox, and you've mentioned a pdf.
The zoom mode of a picturebox retains proportion so it shouldn't be distorting the image, but if you don't want to change the image's size, then so be it.

As for your issue, I guess I can explain what is going on, but I don't know if that will help you decide what you want to do.
Because people have high density pixel display combined with small screens it is hard to see items at their true scale, so windows scales its drawing up, as the user sees fit.
For example, the monitor I'm currently using is 1920 pixels wide, and I normally have the laptop driving it so the recommended scaling is 100% since the monitor is large enough that a native 1920 is fine. When I use the laptop directly, then the recommended scaling is 125%. Since my scaling is 100% currently, I'll set it to 125% for this post, make everything draw larger.

You can see the consequences of this by Maximizing your Form, and then looking at Form.Width. The screen is a true 1920 pixels, but the pixel size that Windows is reporting and drawing makes the form show its width as 1552, instead of 1920.

If I hit Alt-Printscreen to capture the form while it is maximized I get a copy of the form, but the image captured is 1920 pixels wide since it is capturing the whole width of the screen. It doesn't matter how much I zoom the desktop drawing, 125%, 150%, 200% etc., the items on the screen get larger (just as if I scaled up drawing in my picturebox), so see less of my form, i.e. the maximum size gets smaller in the scaled coordinates, but is still 1920 pixels in the video frame buffer.

So, if I capture my 1552 pixel wide form which was scaled to fit the 1920 pixel wide screen, resulting in a 1920 pixel wide capture, and then display it in my form, the 1920 pixel image will exceed my form's display 1552 pixel by 25%.

Bottom line, what issue are you having. The captured image will look larger if you display it in your form, but the image will have the resolution of the area of the screen captured. It won't be the area of the original image displayed on the screen since everything displayed is scaled up.
If I load a 256 pixel wide image in Paint, it will be 256 pixels wide in memory, but will be drawn 320 pixels wide on the screen. But since everything is scaled, paint will show that it is 256 pixels wide and will report the mouse positions in the scaled drawing coordinates, not the raw video frame buffer coordinates, so the application works as expected, even though things are larger.

Unfortunately, I suppose, the screen capture is drawing agnostic, so doesn't know your desktop is reporting 1552 pixels wide screen for mouse coordinates and window coordinates, while the physical pixel buffer is actually 1920 pixels wide (or whatever variation of screen size and scaling you have selected).

So, do you want to scale the screen capture down to keep the display size in your form the same size as it appeared on screen, or just accept that you have less form area to work with, and that images will appear larger in your form than on the screen.

[toecutter]

Using my new W10 laptop it doesn't seem to be as extreme as some of my users have been. But you should get the idea.

On some computers half the plan is zoomed out of the screen bounds.

original snip taken with setting at 150% - snip appears to be a good size





snip after dumped into picturebox - snip zooms due the setting being at 150% - You can see the bottom dimension on the plan are pushed down off the screen.

[toecutter]

i found this which is what i am trying to implement

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...splay-settings