AW: failing snapshot when system textsize > 100%

[Paul Dupuis]

This seems like a bug (that a restart is required) and should probably 
be reported to the LiveCode Quality Center as a bug?


On 1/31/2019 5:44 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote:
> Solved!
> When you change the system text size on windows, you have to restart the
> machine. Without restart the windows are already resized, but some programs
> like LC don't get the new system parameter to work with. E.g. the
> systemPixelScale only gets updated after a restart. After a restart the
> globalLoc() also gets the correct rect - good to know.
> Thanks for listening
> Tiemo
>
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> von Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2019 11:14
> An: LiveCode User Liste senden <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Cc: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>
> Betreff: failing snapshot when system textsize > 100%
>
> Hello,
>
> working with LC 9.0.2 on windows 10
>
> I take snapshots of parts of my stack, which works fine as long as the
> system display setting is set to 100% text size.
>
> When you set the system text size to > 100% the export snapshot function
> grabs wrong rectangles (which are located topleft to the wanted rect).
>
> I tried to use globalLoc(), without success, it still grabs a wrong (but
> other as in case 1) rect topleft of the target rect. I tried to add the
> stack location coords to the target rect, but that's too much.
>
> I know there must be any parameter to get the system text scale, but I
> didn't found it yet (it's really hard, if you have no idea, how the property
> could be named). Perhaps I can scale my rect by this system text scale
> factor? Or does anybody knows any other property or function I could use to
> shift my export snapshot rect to the correct target?
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> Tiemo
>
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