This name is used for Windows Applications that behave correctly in high DPI windows mode
Questions tagged [dpi-aware]
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How to setup a WinForms application size when deploying with Visual Studio Installer?
I have a WinForms application, everything works fine when I run it.
If I publish with the built-in publish tool, it also works fine. The form is the size I want after installation.
built-in publish
However, I want to use the Visual Studio Setup…
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Is it possible to automatically adjust the size of the title bar in WPF based on monitor DPI scaling?
I'm trying to make the title bar of a WPF main window automatically adjust its size to the DPI scaling of the monitor that's showing the application.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything useful on the internet other than the official example…
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Why is the entire form resizing when opening CommonOpenFileDialog in C#?
I have a problem I couldn't quite find the fix for.
To make it clearer, I will post pictures, instead of just trying to describe it with text. My base application looks like this:
But If I try to open the file dialog, which is done by clicking the…
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Disable DPI awareness for WinForms dialog called from WPF
We have a main WPF application which is DPI aware, also we have a Winforms application which is NOT DPI aware. DPI awareness is set through manifests for both applications. When they are run independently it's all fine.
Now we need to show some…
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Win32: How to make popup window match monitor DPI
I'm working on a Win32 app with multiple windows, some of which use WS_POPUPWINDOW style (no caption) and some of which use WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW style. The app has System DPI awareness.
When I move the overlapped windows between monitors, they scale…
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Does WPF Per Monitor DPI awareness really work by default?
Recently I started looking into Per Monitor DPI awareness for windows 10 and noticed that it should be supported by default as I'm using .net5.0 if there are a couple of things configured.
So I went along and followed the steps from this…
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VC++08 make MFC apps DPI aware without updating VC++
I may not have the option to simply update to a more recent VC++ version as would be ideal - the project is big and the update could break a lot of things, plus my lead may tell me not to pursue this. I'm wondering if anybody knows of a means by…
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No video preview image from DirectShow
I have an old .Net application that I wrote years ago that includes a video preview window. This uses a 3rd party library called DirectShowLib-2005.dll. My code is based on some example code I found online that I converted from c# to Vb.net.…
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How to set DPI awareness of COM class loaded via DllSurrogate
I have tried every single manifest example under the sun in order to get my small application to scale properly (on Windows 8.1). Here's my latest attempt, for example:
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C# Winforms AutoScaleMode DPI and Toolbar Buttons
My WinForms (C# .NET 4.6) application needs AutoScaleMode = Dpi for the sake of other features. This works great for 99% of my customers. They are typically using Windows Display Scaling of 100%, 125% or even %150.
However, I have a customer…
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Make VB.NET app DPI Aware (Visual Studio 2012)
I'm trying to make an image file from a control using CopyFromScreen, and it fails unless I set the scale to 100%. With a larger scale the image is progressively offset left and up, the further right and down the window is on the screen.…
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DpiAware in service application
I have a C++ service that execute a Delphi application on NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account. The manifest file below was embedded correctly on Delphi application, but application still isn't dpi aware, for example when take a screenshot with 125% DPI the…
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Handling change of primary DPI without restarting the app
I have a WPF project which draws windows (like popups) over a different app 'APP', according to some elements' position of APP.
Those windows' position is calculated according to the system DPI (aka primary monitor's DPI).
When I change the primary…
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Unable to make app DPI aware - this is not a duplicate
I cannot make my application DPI-aware.
In app.manifest I uncommented:
true
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confused about return of 'Screen.Bounds' in WPF and Winform
I have two monitor(1:3840X2160 200% scale, 2:1280X1024 100% scale)
Then I write something to get my screen resoluton.
System.Drawing.Rectangle entireSize = System.Drawing.Rectangle.Empty;
foreach (System.Windows.Forms.Screen screen…
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