Non-integer Font Size

[victoryhighway2]

Hello Group,
I'm trying to write a program that will simulate the display of our LCD display module. We are giving the user the choice of fonts, font sizes and colors to display. In my simulator, I want to simulate what the display will look like on our LCD display module, but I'm running into a problem. The LCD display we're using is a 68 DPI display, while most PC's are configured for 96 DPI. I've tried multiplying the font sizes by a factor of (96/68), but this results with a fractional point size. I'm trying to use the RichTextBox control to display the text, but unfortunately it only allows integer point sizes. I need to have the display on the simulator match the display on the LCD display as close as possible.

Does anyone have any suggestions to workaround this problem?

Regards,
Geoffrey

 

[trollacious]

Monitor size and screen resolution are what you should be calculating with, not DPI. I'm not sure how you'll check monitor size, though.

Lee

 

[strongm]

>I'm not sure how you'll check monitor size

Tut! A quick keyword search in this forum should find my code to do exactly that ...

(I'll make it easy: thread222-749258)

 

[trollacious]

Then, thanks to strongm, I guess the problem is entirely solved now. #

Lee

 

[victoryhighway2]

This gives me some interesting food for thought. It also looks like this will be a bit more difficult than I originally thought.

I realize that I will be able to scale my graphics by discovering the size of the monitor and the resolution of the monitor by reading the registry, but will I able to re-scale the fonts?

Regards,
Geoffrey

 

[trollacious]

Used the same scaling ratio to multiply the original font size by to get the appropriate final font size.

Lee