Different menu fontsize running program in W10 vs W7

[dilettante]

PS I will get flamed by some who use that setting to make things easier to read.
To those flamers, "I say solve that problem properly" -
- Get a bigger monitor
or
- Use a decent screen magnifier that with one keystroke can double the size of everything, and another key stroke to switch back

The problem is that using high DPI settings is the proper solution. The fact that it causes us a lot of grief as programmers is another matter altogether.

A bigger monitor is seldom a solution either and can make the problem worse. The culprit is the sale of monitors with gratuituously high resolution in order to keep prices and profit margins high. Lately the bigger the monitor the worse the pixel density problem becomes for consumers.


Something I haven't seen confirmed yet is whether the topic of discussion is (a.) a high DPI issue or (b.) an issue of somebody trying to fix unreadble text the wrong way by changing the system font face and sizes through "theme" settings. If the OP is seeing different fonts faces and sizes between a Win7 machine and a Win10 machine then more likely it is (b.) since both OSs use Segoe UI 9 as the standard menu font unless the user has fiddled around creating an old style theme profile.


In any case the only real "fix" a programmer can make is to allow user resizing of all of your Forms that have menus and avoid trying to rescale the controls and fonts within them. Move to flow-based layout instead of magnification-based layout techniques.

[Bobbles]

The problem is that using high DPI settings is the proper solution.

I am old so my memory does not work.
- I think we have disagreed on this in the past (I recall suggesting someone should set it to 9x magnification, and see how well you can program to fix that)
-We disagree on it now
- And if you ask me on my death bed, I will still disagree with you.