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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Resizing Window Resizes Text

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Rknight
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Posted: 1st Nov 2003 19:06
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Here's a real newbie question.

I've been asking a lot of those lately! Apologies.

When I set windows mode on, and I resize the DB program window it resizes the text within it as well.

So the fonts get all bent out of shape depending on the window size.

Is there a simple way to fix?
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BatVink
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Posted: 1st Nov 2003 23:56
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Everything is drawn to a backbuffer and then transferred to the screen. So what you see is not a font in the style of, say MS Word, but in simple terms a bitmap. If you resize a bitmap, the text resizes with it.

Put simply...you can't think of text as text once you've drawn it to the screen, it's just a bitmap like evrything else.

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the_winch
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2003 00:21
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Search the codebase for "set display mode" and the is an entry that uses set display mode to change the res to match the window.
The only problem is that when you use set display mode it wipes out all your loaded media and you have to load it each time the screen is resized.

You could proberly adapt the code to stop the user resizeing the window.
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