[hpsdr] PowerSDR v1.19.3.5.steering1 (K5SO 8SEP2011) ,

[Joe Martin K5SO]

Hi George,

I've examined the effect of changing to 120 DPI on my XP system.  Yes,  
you're right; it screws things up but, frankly, I don't think that  
it's particularly important to make our applications so robust that  
they can withstand all imaginable non-standard settings that can be  
forced on the app by the user.

My view is that it's tough enough to make these apps play properly  
with standard settings and if someone wants to make advanced (non- 
standard) settings on their machines AND ALSO wants the apps to run  
that way they will simply have to bite the bullet and dig into the  
apps themselves to make them run that way.  I, for one, hardly have  
the time or inclination to worry about making programs compatible with  
the myriad of settings that folks can put their Windows systems in.   
I'm a bit concerned that if we focused on all those Windows-specific  
items we'd never make any progress in the radio art itself!

I'm sharing my work for free and if it's not up to someone's general  
programming standards so be it, I can live with that.  I certainly  
welcome anyone who is unhappy with any aspect of our work to jump  
right in and "improve" things for the benefit of all of us.   
Personally, I intend to keep my focus on trying to do innovative  
things on the radio end rather than focusing on the Windows OS side of  
things any more than is absolutely necessary.  I don't enjoy working  
with Windows operating systems.

Thank you for bringing up the issue, however.  It is duly noted and  
you certainly have a valid point.

If someone has a particular problem with my program(s) and needs  
assistance from me to make it(them) work I will be happy to try to  
help but I don't wish to spend too much time worrying about  
hypothetical problems.  The particular problem you bring up could be  
addressed with a specific modification that "personalizes" the app for  
that particular setting, of course.  That's not a general solution,  
certainly, but it's really not my goal to make my apps completely  
bullet proof or idiot proof.   This attitude is why I'm not a very  
good programmer I suppose, hihi; I'm an experimenter not an expert  
programmer so it's appropriate that my code is not an official part of  
the mainstream HPSDR software project on the svn repository, I believe.

If you have a "fix" for the problem you raise I'd be pleased to try to  
understand it and incorporate it.  Keep up the good work, OM!

73,  Joe K5SO


On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:37 PM, george byrkit wrote:

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> Joe,
>
> You should do an additional test, based on some of my observations  
> while
> trying to make a 'small screen KISS Konsole'.
>
> Go into Display Settings on XP or Win7, and choose "120 DPI  
> fonts" (this is
> NOT the same as choosing 'large fonts' in XP!)  Then take a look at  
> your
> display and make sure everything is where it should be and visible.
>
> Likewise, if any ham is having problems, try setting to 'normal fonts'
> (win7) or in the display driver advanced settings (XP...), choose DPI
> setting of 'normal size (96 DPI)'.
>
> In the display settings of XP, there are TWO places where the font  
> size can
> be changed.  The first is 'Display Properties... Appearance tab...  
> Font
> size: normal/large/extra large.  This does NOT ruin the layout of the
> display window of a program.  The second, under Display Properties...
> Settings tab... 'advanced' button, choose DPI settings, will change  
> the
> location of controls on the display window for the app and possibly  
> make
> some buttons not appear at all!
>
> I won't say what's 'right' or 'wrong', only that changing the DPI  
> setting
> changes not just the fonts but all the display window sizes.  So I  
> kind of
> think that's 'wrong' because you 'break' applications when you do  
> that.  But
> others will argue that the app is 'wrong' if it won't work with  
> that.  But
> the app was designed to work at a given window size, and the user  
> can choose
> to 'break' that contract.  Then who is at fault?  Not the app  
> designer...
>
> And on Win7, while the setting seems to suggest 'font size' in DPI,  
> there is
> only one way to do this, and it's the way that 'breaks' applications.
>
> 73,
> George K9TRV
>
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