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    Reading text size scaling value

    Hi all,

    I seacrhed the interwebs for this information, but couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask here.

    With monitors allowing for crazy resulutions nowadays, Windows allows to scale text sizes. (Typically 125%, 150%, etc.) This unfortunately has the consequence of screwing-up many of my forms display, eding up with an unreadible/unusable forms.

    Is there a way to read that text increase value so that my application can take it into consideration when calculating label sizes, positions, and stuff?

    Thanks in advance!


    P.S.: Alternatively, is there a way to disable text increase for a given form? Or force it to a specific value?
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    Re: Reading text size scaling value

    Thanks Paul,

    I did stumble upon this documentation before posting here but if I understand correctly, this is all about setting up how Visual Studio's form designer behaves in DPI-Aware mode on. what I need is to change how my application (which is made using Visual Studio) behaves...

    Now if I misunderstood something about it, please let me know.
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    Re: Reading text size scaling value

    There’s an app manifest setting you can use to set dpiaware = false for your app, which will avoid scaling issues….

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...tion-dpi-aware

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    Re: Reading text size scaling value

    Yeah, I know and I'm using it, but rather to define my app as dpi-aware. I'm not looking to disable entirely the DPI-aware thing, but rather be able to disable it for a particular form, or at least get to know the Windows scaling factor set so I can use that information to automatically position/scale/set font size my controls inside my form.
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