gideros automatic resolution not working

#Gideros automatic resolution not working install
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We have an app built this way deployed on hundreds of machines with different DPI setups and we no longer have any complaints. I guarantee that if you follow these guidelines you will be ok, even when you have placed controls with specific anchors and don't use a flowpanel. exe file from the /bin/Debug folder on the DEV machine.

#Gideros automatic resolution not working install

Use another machine or a virtual windows install (VMware, Virtual PC, VirtualBox) with a higher DPI setting to test your design immediatly.

It might work if the form and all containers on the form use the same font size, but I haven't tried it. set them per control instead of setting the font on the container class because winforms uses the containers font setting to scale it's contents and having f.ex a panel with a different font size than it's containing form is guaranteed to make problems.

If you need to set different font sizes on labels/textboxes etc.

This.AutoScaleDimensions = new (6F, 13F) // for design in 96 DPI

Make sure all containers have the below line set in the Designer.cs file:.

All containers must use the same AutoScaleMode.

Designer.cs file at all for all containers so that it uses the default font from the container class.

Make sure you use the default font size on all your containers (forms, panels, tabpage, usercontrols etc).

I've used AutoScaleMode.Font with success, I haven't tried AutoScaleMode.DPI much.

If you design in 120DPI (125% f.ex) it will get really bad when you go back to 96 DPI to work with it later.

Always edit/design your apps in default 96 DPI (100%).

Here are some rules/guidelines to make it work correctly without a FlowLayoutPanel or TableLayoutPanel: I've spent A LOT of time with this problem. Your best option is to move to WPF of course, but that might not be feasible.

#Gideros automatic resolution not working update

Read more about it on It only works for Win 10 Creators Update and higher though, so it might not be feasible to use this yet depending on your user base.ĭifficult, but not impossible. NET 4.7, windows forms has improved support for High DPI.