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Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6

From	"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6
Date	2011-08-13 15:27 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"Brigand" <markashall@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:62ddb9d6-ee83-4100-887e-73ac27d68979@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...

> This works perfectly fine 90% of the time. The problem
> occurs for users who have changed the dpi settings

Incidentally, further to my previous response, when you have created your 
manifest (either as a separate file alongside your VB compiled exe or 
preferably embedded into your exe) you need to check that your manifest is 
actually working before you go any further. Do not just assume it is 
working. You can check it by temporarily adding the following line into your 
Form load event or wherever:

    MsgBox Me.ScaleX(1, vbInches, vbPixels) & " dpi"

Then temporarily set both a Vista and a Win7 machine to a Custom 150% (144 
dpi) setting making sure there is NOT a tick in the box against "Use XP 
Style DPI Scaling". If the above code still reports 96 dpi on either of 
those machines then your manifest is not working properly and you'll need to 
fix it. It is not worth providing a solution to your current problem until 
you have done those things.

Mike

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Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Brigand <markashall@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 12:01 -0700
  Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-12 21:23 +0100
    Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Ivar" <ivar.ekstromer000@ntlworld.com> - 2011-08-14 11:33 +0100
      Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-14 13:30 +0100
        Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Ivar" <ivar.ekstromer000@ntlworld.com> - 2011-08-14 14:06 +0100
          Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-14 23:36 +0100
            Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-08-14 20:03 -0400
              Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-08-15 09:30 -0400
                Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-08-15 10:58 -0400
                Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Brigand <markashall@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-16 05:42 -0700
                Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-16 14:01 +0100
                Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-08-16 15:04 -0400
                Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-16 22:02 +0100
            Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-08-19 15:34 -0600
  Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-13 15:27 +0100
  Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-08-23 15:05 +0100
    Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-08-26 17:48 +0100
      Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-08-26 22:06 -0500
        Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-08-27 11:58 -0400
          Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Dr J R Stockton <reply1134@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-08-28 18:48 +0100
      Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2011-08-27 19:23 +0200
        Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-08-27 16:56 -0500
          Re: Overriding Windows display settings - vb6 Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2011-08-28 01:33 +0200

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