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David Graser:
The Xcenter cpu widget freezes along the rest of the WPS.

I am getting this error message in the popuplog.os2.

11-07-2023  14:15:34  SYS3171  PID 001f  TID 0001  Slot 0046
D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
c0000005
1ffc74db
P1=00000002  P2=0003fffc  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00040000  EBX=00040320  ECX=00000000  EDX=00040428
ESI=00000000  EDI=00000000 
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=5fffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=5fffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1ffc74db  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=5fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:00040000  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=5fffffff
EBP=0004003c  FLG=00010283

DOSCALL1.DLL 0002:000074db
 
OK, I just installed ArcaOS on another partion on the same laptop.  No problem with the startup folders on this partition.  Thus, I can only conclude I added a program or some change which causes it to hang on the other partition.  I will continue to investigate.  If I ever determine anything I will let you know. I apologize for wasting your time.

Pete:
Hi All

Playing with the new Text Size - was on Standard - I selected Medium size, clicked Test and was a bit surprised to see the Properties notebook shrink in size. Is that supposed to happen?


Regards

Pete


Rich Walsh:

--- Quote from: Pete on November 12, 2023, 04:37:55 pm ---Playing with the new Text Size - was on Standard - I selected Medium size, clicked Test and was a bit surprised to see the Properties notebook shrink in size. Is that supposed to happen?

--- End quote ---

Absolutely!

The size of dialog windows and their contents is proportional to the size of the default system font. IOW, a bigger font produces bigger dialogs. This worked great back in the days when all dialogs used the default font (System Proportional) for their text. As the font size increased, the dialogs automatically grew to accommodate. Then along came WarpSans...

To ensure that the system used the new font, eCS and AOS added entries to 'os2.ini' to force the use of 9pt WarpSans rather than the system default.. However, no one ever added an entry to lock down the default. I guess they assumed this was invariant and would always be 10pt System Proportional. But that isn't the case: at resolutions of 1280x1024 and above, the default system font changes to 12pt System Proportional. The result on higher res displays is overly-large dialogs that have been scaled to use 12pt while their content hasn't been scaled up and remains at 9pt.

'Text Size' addresses this by *always* setting the default system font to a size that will comfortably handle whatever size of WarpSans you choose. For the "Small" and "Medium" (9 and 10pt WarpSans) sizes, that's 10pt System Proportional. The result is dialogs that are the "correct" size - in this case, smaller.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

I also noticed that "Comer Cursor" on the mouse settings does not respect the text size too.

Is Comet Cursor on XWorkplace, AMouse, or is old IBM code that can not be updated?

Regards

Rich Walsh:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 07, 2023, 05:36:06 pm ---I also noticed that "Comer Cursor" on the mouse settings does not respect the text size too.
Is Comet Cursor on XWorkplace, AMouse, or is old IBM code that can not be updated?

--- End quote ---

AOS replaces most of IBM's notebook pages with more attractive versions created by Alex Taylor. This looks like one of them. He's been working hard to get them all Text Size-compliant (and they should already be in 5.1) but he may have missed this one. I'll ask him about it.

FYI... I've been putting together a "Text Size Supplement" package that will make more WPS notebook pages work with Text Size. The most important component of the package is Alex's revised page layouts. This may not be needed for AOS 5.1 but all other release of OS/2 will benefit from installing them. Another component is a revised DTProgram DLL to make its Program object pages compliant as well. There may be other things included as well. The main hold up right now is finding time to write a custom installer (it's too complicated for WarpIn or RPM).

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