----Original Message---- From: Stefan Seefeld [mailto:seefeld@sympatico.ca] Sent: 04 October 2005 14:35 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] GUI coordinate units (Was: GUI foundations)
Sizes are usually given in resolution-dependent coordinates (i.e. pixels). If you change resolution, you typically don't do that to expose more detail, but to make your desktop 'bigger' (by making text, widgets, etc. smaller).
This seems to be a common view among developers. I can only assume they are all still young with excellent eyesight. When I moved from 800x600 to 1024x768 what I really wanted was less fuzzy letters (not more letters). I moved from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 because I got given a 17" LCD monitor. Windows-XP doesn't make a bad fist of scaling everything back again to a reasonable size, but a lot of GUIs get a bit messed up because people have done everything in pixels rather than scalable graphics. -- Martin Bonner Martin.Bonner@Pitechnology.com Pi Technology, Milton Hall, Ely Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4 6WZ, ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)1223 441434