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Your wide monitor requires "Disable display scaling"?
Does your widescreen monitor require compatibility mode setting
"Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"? Using Windows 8 with lots of scripting/macroring, many of my programs including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) with Advanced Scripting require that compatibility mode setting. Seems kinda strange. If it's not something peculiar about my system, seems many people would suffer the same erroneous pointer placement when playing scripts/macros without that setting. Windows 8 64-bit Intel CPU and mainboard GeForce GT9800 Lots of (voice-activated) scripting |
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Your wide monitor requires "Disable display scaling"?
John Doe wrote:
Does your widescreen monitor require compatibility mode setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"? Using Windows 8 with lots of scripting/macroring, many of my programs including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) with Advanced Scripting require that compatibility mode setting. Seems kinda strange. If it's not something peculiar about my system, seems many people would suffer the same erroneous pointer placement when playing scripts/macros without that setting. Windows 8 64-bit Intel CPU and mainboard GeForce GT9800 Lots of (voice-activated) scripting As long as the screen resolution doesn't change, from the day that the macro is recorded, I don't see that it matters. The macro recording will be in screen coordinates, and the next time a dialog appears, the buttons will have the same offset to X=0,Y=0 of the dialog box. Apparently it is possible, in a program manifest, to make some statement about whether the Windows DPI setting will be honored or not. So it is possible to mess around with this stuff. In this example, a customer wants a particular program to not use DPI scaling like the rest of the programs are getting. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...scompatibility Paul |
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Your wide monitor requires "Disable display scaling"?
Paul nospam needed.com wrote:
John Doe wrote: Does your widescreen monitor require compatibility mode setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"? Using Windows 8 with lots of scripting/macroring, many of my programs including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) with Advanced Scripting require that compatibility mode setting. Seems kinda strange. If it's not something peculiar about my system, seems many people would suffer the same erroneous pointer placement when playing scripts/macros without that setting. Windows 8 64-bit Intel CPU and mainboard GeForce GT9800 Lots of (voice-activated) scripting As long as the screen resolution doesn't change, from the day that the macro is recorded, I don't see that it matters. The macro recording will be in screen coordinates, and the next time a dialog appears, the buttons will have the same offset to X=0,Y=0 of the dialog box. That would be a good lead if I hadn't been doing Windows macroing stuff forever. Apparently it is possible, in a program manifest, to make some statement about whether the Windows DPI setting will be honored or not. You got me thinking, it's not big screen, it's high DPI. Then again, that's most likely when using a high resolution big-screen monitor. You can usually tell easily whether the DPI setting is being used by the program startup splash screen, and whether you will need to mess with that compatibility setting. The size of the program's splash screen (if any) changes when you change that compatibility setting. But my current problem is not so simple as just changing that setting. It forces DNS to behave in one way, but DNS finds another way to mess up. |
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Your wide monitor requires "Disable display scaling"?
Looks like the solution to my problem, erroneous macro/script
playback like when using DNS Advanced Scripting or another scripting program like Vocola or Dragonfly with Natlink might be to use Windows XP style scaling in display properties when using high DPI settings for large fonts on a large monitor. "Use Windows XP style scaling" Thanks to Paul for the little push to get me looking for a solution. Does your widescreen monitor require compatibility mode setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"? Using Windows 8 with lots of scripting/macroring, many of my programs including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) with Advanced Scripting require that compatibility mode setting. Seems kinda strange. If it's not something peculiar about my system, seems many people would suffer the same erroneous pointer placement when playing scripts/macros without that setting. Windows 8 64-bit Intel CPU and mainboard GeForce GT9800 Lots of (voice-activated) scripting |
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Your wide monitor requires "Disable display scaling"?
Found another possible solution while researching a problem with
the real-time strategy game Supreme Commander. If you're using a custom DPI percentage setting of 150 or greater, changing that to 149 can make the mouse pointer visible (it might also cure the specific problem I brought up in this thread). Unfortunately, transitioning from 150 to 149 DPI percentage also greatly reduced the pointer size in Windows here, but that won't bother most people. Does your widescreen monitor require compatibility mode setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"? Using Windows 8 with lots of scripting/macroring, many of my programs including Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) with Advanced Scripting require that compatibility mode setting. Seems kinda strange. If it's not something peculiar about my system, seems many people would suffer the same erroneous pointer placement when playing scripts/macros without that setting. Windows 8 64-bit Intel CPU and mainboard GeForce GT9800 Lots of (voice-activated) scripting |
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