Steve Bennett wrote:
Ok, I should have clarified that I have read that bit of the tutorial
many times and it doesn't help a lot. In particular:
- the two systems that are displaying it differently have the
same font size, different screen resolutions (1280x1024 vs 1152x864)
but the same pixels-per-inch settings. And strangely, the installer
box appears physically larger on the smaller screen (that is, the box
is a greater number of pixels across on the 1152-wide display than it
is on the 1280-wide display -- quite a few more).
- The bitmaps I'm using more or less conform to the
specifications. There are big letters which are part of the logo, and
it's a pain if we can't use that. No dithering or chequered backgrounds.
Resolution and DPI aren't directly related to MSI dialog scaling. It's
not documented, but from experimenting, it appears that MSI uses the
message box font to determine when it thinks it needs to scale dialogs.
Typical XP themes all look the same with the same DPI setting but custom
themes, customized fonts, or non-English fonts all can cause scaling.
There's really nothing you can do to avoid it using MSI UI; even Win32
UI suffers from the same problem though it's more predictable (based on
DPI) and most folks running high DPI are used to minor artifacts because
of scaling.
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