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Yes and no, it should be transparent as in the app shouldn't be broken because someone has set their DPI to be different than usual. This becomes especially imp
by T-Winsnes 14y ago
Yes and no, it should be transparent as in the app shouldn't be broken because someone has set their DPI to be different than usual. This becomes especially important when you have an application that can run on different devices with high and low DPI.
Also, the 150% DPI setting is an accessibility feature for people with bad eye sight. All apps on windows desktop should support it. If your app doesn't, and setting it to 150% breaks your app, it's you fault for not spending the resources to support it. It might be a business decision, and that's cool, but it's still your choice. Can't blame it on anyone else.
- interpol_p 14y agoIf it's an accessibility feature only — and might break apps — then it shouldn't be the default setting on the Surface Pro. In a well designed operating system the application should not have to explicitly handle arbitrary DPI settings for correct touch/pointer input. An unsupported application should simply look blurry if it does not provide correct raster assets for the specified DPI. That's it.
- ygra 14y agoThe problem is that some applications tell the OS "Hey, I do support that" and they might even work fine for 125 % but fail for 150 (our product at work falls in that category). Basically everything you draw yourself on a pixel-based device context needs to be dpi-aware and people make mistakes, applications advertise capabilities that aren't there and not enough testing is being done. I can imagine though, that fixing that is now fairly high on their issue list. And Windows has used an automatically-determined scaling factor (based on display dpi) since Windows 7 so it's not exactly new.