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Re: Setup.exe: misbehaviour with non-standard DPI (aka no scroll bar)


On Thursday 2003-01-16, marcel@telka.sk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:17:11PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Marcel Telka wrote:
> > >>> Hm. Tested with 144 dpi: no problem.
> > >>>
> > >>> Notes: My XP installation is fresh (only two days old) with all
> > >>> relevant updates (from windowsupdate) installed. Installation was made
> > >>> from CD marked: "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Disc 1" (MSDN Disc
> > >>> 1847). No, my PC is not a Tablet PC :-). This installation CD comes
> > >>> with the SP1 built in and it looks like a standard XP (and it is a XP
> > >>> Professional Edition :-).
> > >>
> > >> How odd. On my PC, the package chooser and the view name (where is
> > >> says Category/Full/Partial) are clipped off at the right hand side
> > >> of the window.
> > >> I'm running Windows XP, with slipstreamed SP1, and all
> > >> WindowsUpdates. Maybe they fixed something in the Tablet PC edition.
> > >
> > > Strange. Is here someone else who is able to reproduce this buggy
> > > behaviour?
> > 
> > There has been a trickle of bug reports for as long as I remember, but I
> > don't know if any of those people are on this list.
> 
> Hm.

FWIW, I reported the problem recently, on Win2K SP2 with my display at
144dpi.  (I've now switched to 120dpi as I'm fed up with this problem
appearing on various applications -- not just Cygwin's fault!)

Hugh


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