Dialog Units to pixels rounding problems

[czerny]

I have the following problem: I have some controls in a vertical distance of 12 dialog units. But this rounds to a pixel distance plus/minus 1 pixel (see picture). Because of the very small distance it looks not very nice.
I do not like to write extra code to adjust the positions afterwards.

Is there a little trick to avoid this phenomenon? I use tahoma. Is there a font with a better DLU/Pixel ratio?

[TimoVJL]

I can't understand what the problem is ?
Can you explain what problem is with this tiny example ?

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#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>

LRESULT CALLBACK MainDlgProc(HWND hwndDlg, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
switch (uMsg)
{
case WM_INITDIALOG:
return TRUE;
case WM_CLOSE:
EndDialog(hwndDlg, 0);
return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
}

int __cdecl WinMainCRTStartup(void)
{
return DialogBox(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(1001), NULL, (DLGPROC)MainDlgProc);
}

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#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>

1001 DIALOGEX DISCARDABLE 6, 18, 82, 38
STYLE DS_SHELLFONT|WS_POPUP|DS_MODALFRAME|DS_3DLOOK|WS_CAPTION|WS_SYSMENU|WS_VISIBLE
CAPTION "Dialog"
FONT 8, "Tahoma", 0, 0, 1
{
  CONTROL "This label:", 4001, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 0, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4002, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 0, 40, 12
  CONTROL "This label:", 4003, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 12, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4004, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 12, 40, 12
  CONTROL "This label:", 4005, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 24, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4006, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 24, 40, 12
}

[czerny]

Just set the controls 1 unit lower. The horizontal border lines differ 1 pixel.

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#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>

1001 DIALOGEX DISCARDABLE 6, 18, 82, 38
STYLE DS_SHELLFONT|WS_POPUP|DS_MODALFRAME|DS_3DLOOK|WS_CAPTION|WS_SYSMENU|WS_VISIBLE
CAPTION "Dialog"
FONT 8, "Tahoma", 0, 0, 1
{
  CONTROL "This label:", 4001, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 1, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4002, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 1, 40, 12
  CONTROL "This label:", 4003, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 13, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4004, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 13, 40, 12
  CONTROL "This label:", 4005, "Static", WS_GROUP, 0, 25, 40, 12, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE
  CONTROL "Edit", 4006, "Edit", ES_AUTOHSCROLL|WS_BORDER|WS_TABSTOP, 40, 25, 40, 12
}

[jj2007]

The bot brigade is back: "Zandra" copied randomly one of my old posts.
The Masm32 forum also got two similar posts today, just crap, seems to be a problem with the Simple Machines forum software.

[frankie]

Ok
let's start cleaning for now ...