Hi
I have a pretty basic windows application created in Visual Studio
2005 and VB.NET.
I set my Form's font to Arial 8.25pt, so when i added a label and a
button they automatically have a font of Arial and 8.25pt.
Great.
I run it, all is well.
I created an installer using InstallShield (I doubt this has anything
to do with the problem but you never know?)
It has been installed on about 20 machines over 20 different offices,
every machine runs Windows XP Pro. Everything looks fine on all
machines with the exception of 1
On this one machine, the font of the button and label is different, it
is slightly larger and looks like it may be bold. I'm sure it is still
Arial but i cannot be 100% sure on that.
As it is bigger, the label expands (autosize = true) and it expands to
the right, overlapping the textbox that is positioned to the right of
the label.
The button has a caption of "Upload" but on this one machine we just
see "Uploa" as the button is now not big enough to hold the whole word
"Upload"
I do not have access to this machine but i am in contact with someone
who does.
My first thought was that it was something they changed in desktop /
properties / appearances / advanced.
I went through every setting on my machine, changed the font and
increased the size.
Things like my menu (file edit view etc) all change, but no windows
appearance setting overrides button captions and label fonts.
I also checked the advanced display options, i increased the DPI to
125 (desktop - properties - settings - advanced) this increased the
size of my menu etc but again did not change the button or label.
the form has other controls like textboxes, a datagridview, etc, and
the font's of these all seem to be this new variant of the font.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what is changing the font appearance
on this machine?
Thanks in advance
Andrew Ames
I have a pretty basic windows application created in Visual Studio
2005 and VB.NET.
I set my Form's font to Arial 8.25pt, so when i added a label and a
button they automatically have a font of Arial and 8.25pt.
Great.
I run it, all is well.
I created an installer using InstallShield (I doubt this has anything
to do with the problem but you never know?)
It has been installed on about 20 machines over 20 different offices,
every machine runs Windows XP Pro. Everything looks fine on all
machines with the exception of 1
On this one machine, the font of the button and label is different, it
is slightly larger and looks like it may be bold. I'm sure it is still
Arial but i cannot be 100% sure on that.
As it is bigger, the label expands (autosize = true) and it expands to
the right, overlapping the textbox that is positioned to the right of
the label.
The button has a caption of "Upload" but on this one machine we just
see "Uploa" as the button is now not big enough to hold the whole word
"Upload"
I do not have access to this machine but i am in contact with someone
who does.
My first thought was that it was something they changed in desktop /
properties / appearances / advanced.
I went through every setting on my machine, changed the font and
increased the size.
Things like my menu (file edit view etc) all change, but no windows
appearance setting overrides button captions and label fonts.
I also checked the advanced display options, i increased the DPI to
125 (desktop - properties - settings - advanced) this increased the
size of my menu etc but again did not change the button or label.
the form has other controls like textboxes, a datagridview, etc, and
the font's of these all seem to be this new variant of the font.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what is changing the font appearance
on this machine?
Thanks in advance
Andrew Ames
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