drive combobox (letter m)

[adacom]

apologise if this is known - did a search but found nothing

firstly i am calling the drive combobox the box with all the drive letters in it with the pull down chevron

i have a network drive mapped to m - the letter m does not display correctly in the drive combobox - the box is not wide enough for the network icon - the drive letter [has to be a double width letter - m or w] and the chevron

the m looks like n with a bit tagged on the top right

may have been in 7.04 - i have only just mapped this drive

easy answer is change the drive letter - but i work to a convention that makes this drive m

may als be able to manually change the width but i dont know how?

[Clo]

2adacom

Hello !

• I assume that the M drive is shown as uppercase in TC 7.5 ?
- If so, please add in <wincmd.ini> >> [Configuration]
DrivesShowUpcase=0
- Save the file and restart TC…
- AFAIK, there is no way to widen the combobox itself…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[adacom]

hi - thanks for the quick reply - no its shown in lowercase as are all the drive letters

cannot work out how to post a picture - would do if i could

just thought whilst typing this i change the font sizes so guess that will have an effect - but then they are there to be changed

i use arial 10

[sqa_wizard]

2adacom: I tried it using TC 7.50pb4 on Windows XP, but the drive letter is fully visible.

Which TC and OS version are you using ?

[Vansumsen]

adacom

Instead of Arial, try Tahoma or reduce the size to 8 or 9 for the main window font!

Paul

[adacom]

had sort of worked that out - but i like arial 10 - i have always used it - did not notice this in 7.04 but then i did not have a drive m

my point i guess is if there is a choice of font then it should work or be restricted

i know that can/could be taken to stupid levels with a large font - but what i am choosing is hardly that

and arial 9 is no better - it would have to be 8 which i find too small

Tahoma does work at 10 though - will have to go with that if there is no other fix

edit

answer to post which i missed - am running vista - was running 7.5 beta3 - just updated to beta4 and its no better

[sqa_wizard]

I even tried Arial 48 ! It looks strange, but the drive letter is fully visible ...

[adacom]

most odd - i have just tried arial 48 - it shows more of the 'm' but still not it all - the right hand vertical bar is missing

[sqa_wizard]

OK, let's track it down ...
I just tried it on Vista, but in a virtual machine only.

Which theme do you use at Vista ?

[adacom]

i use normal vista theme with a few font changes - non of which should impact on TC?

i am on a laptop at the moment - screen res 1280 x 800 - however it is the same on a desktop on a 22" monitor

TC is not full screen - but if i change it nothing happens

the clue [surely] is the font i prefer - Arial 10 - other fonts and other sizes are ok - also it only happens with 'double' letters - m or w being obvious i guess

it just seems to me its how i have it set - and the font i want to use

when i posted at first i had not thought about the fact that i had changed the font

is there a way to post a screen grab - that shows it

[adacom]

lets try this - the letter is an m NOT n in the combobox

Image: http://diplocks.co.uk/pic/m.jpg

[Clo]

adacom

Again…

• Here I use a classic Win 9x theme as ususal with XP-Pro, for instance I get SUCH DRIVES LETTERS
(capital) in TC 7.5 - blown up by 300%.
- The font is TrebuchetMS, 9, bold.
- But there is no network icon, maybe is it this icon wider ?
- Perhaps could you try such a classic theme, just to get a clue…

Note : Alas, the image feature is still disabled here within the messages, despite N… requests and snivellings…   :twisted:

KR
Claude
Clo

[adacom]

my install is out of the box - well nearly - i have changed the font but not from uppercase to lowercase - its always been like that - its as it came

if i alter the drive letter to K or k then i would see it all even on a network drive - certainly on a local drive

as to the network icon in the combobox - i have not added that it appeared - the drive m is a mapped drive on a computer on a network server - i assume thats where the icon comes from



i am not bothered that the network icon is there - it can go - that would show the m in full - but i have no idea how to get rid of it

as i said earlier i can change the font to get rid of the problem - but thats not the answer - surely - the font should show in full as its from within the TC program

[j]

Poking in the dark, maybe it has to do with your DPI settings?
Maybe TC (or Delphi, or what ever) does not determine the right width of a character if the DPI is not set to 96?!

[adacom]

dpi is set to 96