Windows 11: Just say no

Re:Windows 11: Just say no by Joeri on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:34AM (#28561622)

Applications also have to listen for messages that indicate a dpi change (moving between screens) and recalculate and redraw everything for the new dpi. The legacy codebases which are easily retrofitted to do that are the stuff of myths and legends.

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Re:Windows 11: Just say no by jussij on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:20AM (#28565809)

> Applications also have to listen for messages that indicate a dpi change

That is how a well behaved 'DPI Aware' application should work.

However, even for those badly written DPI applications that don't listen for those changes, the work around is to first make the required DPI changes and then restart those badly written DPI applications, as they will then pick up those DPI changes on startup.

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Re:Windows 11: Just say no by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:18AM (#28564010)

So the solution is to push a completely new UI framework as though that won't require any code to be touched?

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