[THIN] Re: VB app on Win 2k3: fonts look different?
- From: "Jim Strowe" <jstrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:43:49 -0400
I did think of one thing... make sure that the Web client is set to Seamless
not a partial screen or a named resolution 800 x 600 et al. We had one app
that if you had the web client NOT set to seamless that the text would
scrunch.
The only thing I thought of on my "bad" app was that whatever registry key
it queried for screen size didn't give the app what it wanted. i.e. the app
thought you had a different screen size than what you had, so didn't draw
right.
You might want to try via Program Neighborhood the app and deliberately
screw up the resolution and see if you can replicate the "scrunching"
factor. (to test the theory/if you can break it on cue and "unbreak" it
you're on the way to a solution)
Msg: #1 in digest
From: "Steve Raffensberger" <sraffens1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: UPDATE: Re: VB app on Win 2k3: fonts look different?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:30:39 -0400
When you run it from the W2K3 console and it is fine, are you using the same
screen resolution and color depth as the RDP/ICA clients?
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Subject: [THIN] UPDATE: Re: VB app on Win 2k3: fonts look different?
I originally asked:
> > We are publishing a VB app a consultant wrote for us. It looks good
on
> > our Windows 2000 systems, but when published from our test Windows
> > 2003 terminal server, the labels for the various fields on the forms
> > look scrunched together, and in some cases, the label is truncated.
> > Other applications published on this server look OK ... It's only
this
> > VB app that is having the problem.
Later, I wrote:
> The field labels themselves are "scrunched up". The field
> themselves have also all shifted to the left, so that the
> right side of the screen is pretty empty (it's a form we run
> full-screen ... It's pretty busy).
> In a couple of cases, the fields actually run up against long
> field labels so the labels appear truncated. Text INSIDE the
> fields themselves appear to be OK.
> ...
> I think what I'm going to do is to put the
> Win2K Sans Serif font on the
> 2k3 box (it's still in testing mode, so if I break something
> I can always roll back to a previous ghost) and see if that
> resolves the problem.
I wasn't able to change the font out (wouldn't let me delete the Sans
Serif on the Windows 2003 .. Something had it open), but I did try
another thing.
I'm an idiot so I didn't test this before, but: when the app is run from
the console of the Terminal Server, it appears FINE. If the app is run
from an ICA client as a desktop or as a published app, it's screwed up.
AND, if it's run over an RDP desktop it is STILL screwed up (somehow, I
thought it would work over RDP, making this an ICA-specific issue).
Now then: I'm running MPS 3.0 on Windows 2003, using the ICA 8.00.24737
client. The application is a VB6 app, launched from a Microsoft Great
Plains 7.5 sessions.
This app looks fine using this ICA client when presented from a Windows
2000/Metaframe XP system, but looks bad when presented from a Windows
2003/MPS 3.0 system.
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