I have a customer where my application's forms are shown in a different layout than they suppose to be. Please see the attached images.



My customer and I are using Windows Vista 64bits with a screen resolution of 1920x1200.



Is there a form's property or something I have to setup to make sure the form's will display as they should?

BTW, I am not using any autosizing or anchor properties.

Edhy Rijo

Edhy,

Most likley this is due to one of the following things: Autoscaling or a non-distributed font.  The DPI resolution will always mess with you as Charles pointed out.  But in this case, it could be the Autoscaling on the form:

This has bitten me before as well.  You can adjust this to prevent auto-scaling altogether.  The second issue may be if you are developing with a font that you are not distrubuting.  In these cases, the default system font will be used which can cause these types of issues.  For example, we use Calibri and Segoe UI in our medical application a lot.  However, these are distributed only with Vista machines which means that we had to take this into account on our installation.

Hope this helps.

Charles / Trent,

Thanks for the reply.



Sure it did help. I have been able to duplicate this situation under Virtual PC, and yes the customer's computer is using a Larger scale of 120 DPI.

I tried setting the form's AutoScaleMode property to "None" but that did not make a difference, then I played changing the label fonts to Segoe UI and setting Anchor properties for the ThemedGroupBoxes and for now that gives me an acceptable solution, but this could become messy having to do all this for all forms.

Is there a way to set the default font for SF TextBoxes?

Edhy Rijo