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Re: GUI size on different screens [message #51495 is a reply to message #51471]

Fri, 24 November 2006 01:40

Allan Whiteford
Messages: 117
Registered: June 2006

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Lory,

While not a perfect solution, you can change the font size for all the
label widgets, text widgets etc. This can save a lot of space depending
on what sort of widgets you have (obviously it has no effect if it's
mostly draw widgets).

Something like:

widget_control,default_font='-adobe-courier-*-r-*--8-*

near the start of your code, assuming you're not explicitly giving fonts
to each widget. This will affect the size of most things (most widgets
have text on them in some form).

On linux, you can use "xfontsel" to see the different fonts available,
the example I gave above isn't very pleasing on the eye. Presumably a
similar thing exists on windows... something called "charmap" seems
familiar from distant memories but I really don't know.

Not ideal, but much quicker that re-writing all your code.

Thanks,

Allan

lory wrote:
> Hi,
> I developed a software in IDL with a large number of GUIs. The screen
> resolution of my PC is 1600x1200 and the GUIs are correctly sized for
> this kind of screen. I did not use explicit sizing of the widgets,
> since I need to use both linux and windows systems. Now, I installed my
> software on a laptop with a 1024x768 pixels screen and ... the software
> is totally useless since the GUIs are too large and go off the screen !
> Is there any simple solution to this problem? There is any way to
> resize characters, buttons and so on accordingly with the screen size?
> Please, I don't want to rewrite all the code to fit the 1024x768 pixels
> ! It's a lot of code !
>
> thanks
>
> lory
>

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		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Sat, 25 November 2006 09:58
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: lory on Sat, 25 November 2006 09:49
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: lory on Fri, 24 November 2006 08:44
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Allan Whiteford on Fri, 24 November 2006 01:40
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 November 2006 18:31
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: greg michael on Thu, 23 November 2006 11:29
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Braedley on Thu, 23 November 2006 10:58
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Mike[2] on Mon, 27 November 2006 13:56
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: lory on Mon, 27 November 2006 12:12

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