Windows 7 Graphics – High DPI | yochay

intelman

Wow the audio is messed up for me on this video. Oh wow, maybe it isn't the video, perhaps silverlight..

Hansjoerg

Thansk for giving a hint. But unfortenately I think currently there is way too many applications that break if you set the High DPI. For instance MS SQL Reporting Services 2008 fails. Just tried it -> some text is not being displayed any more in reports. So even MS itself did not really take care about this really important Windows feature - which is by fact in Windows since Win98 (or was it Win2000).

So i guess it will take a while until this wil be really useful.

nano.he

Link speed limited, i can only click "WMA" Sad ...

figuerres
???

so where can i find a desktop monitor for say 18" to 22" that's even 100PPI ? I hate to say this but there are so very few montiors that are high-dpi. seems like small laptop displays are the only common ones.

who wants a an 12x8 inch desktop screen?

jfoegen

Where is the example? I see the manifest (which gives a warning when added during linking), but not the full example on MSDN.

Thanks.

stevo_
Human after all

Wow..

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

I don't like it how that setting is treated. The DPI setting should define the real DPI value that the display has. It's not a zoom setting. Zooming should be another setting entirely.

For example, on netbooks you usually have 114 - 147 DPI. In order to be able to set proper sizes and proportions towards real world elements that you might display on the screen, you would need the correct DPI value. However, you wouldn't want everything to scale that much, because you are very space constrained. Or, there's also displays with a 72 DPI, where setting that value would have a really bad result. Therefore there should be a separate zoom setting that allows elements which have been defined with pixel based sizes to scale accordingly for people that want things to display larger.

The DPI setting on the other hand should only be used to be able to specify the size of an element in Point (pt) for print media or other real world measurment units like inches, and centimeters.
You should also use a bicubic resizer for the magnifying tool or images at high DPI... it gets pixelated.

PS: If anyone knows of a 32" widescreen display with 200 DPI or more... I want one (or two)!