Font issue : Controls text cutoff in Windows 7 machine

Question

Hello

I have a Visual Studio 2008 Windows Application which typically has menu items,textboxes and some buttons on almost every other forms. It looks great on my development machine which is XP SP3.

I read my AppConfig file to set the font family and font size which is common to all forms. For ex: I use the Arial 10 font to be used to be used for all controls in all the forms

But when I installed the application on Window7, the font looks little bit big and i can see cutoff in the some menuitems and in other controls for ex: labels.

Does this mean that the font setting on a Windows XP machine is different from the setting on a Windows 7 ??

Regards

Answer 1

It may not be this, but you need to be aware that font scaling on Windows 7 can work differently to Windows XP. Check that, if font scaling is in use, it's being done with the XP-compatible mechanism.