Author Topic: XWP v1.0.16  (Read 1290 times)

David Graser

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Re: XWP v1.0.16
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2023, 09:21:13 pm »
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.
« Last Edit: November 07, 2023, 10:21:06 pm by David Graser »

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Re: XWP v1.0.16
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2023, 04:37:55 pm »
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?


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Re: XWP v1.0.16
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2023, 06:02:35 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?

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.
« Last Edit: November 12, 2023, 06:06:44 pm by Rich Walsh »