TC 32-bit - wrong menus height

[MaxX]

Go to
Configuration -> Icons -> Show icons for commands in main menu
Turn this off.

Now restart TC 32-bit on Win 7 or Win 10 and open any upper menus. The distance between text lines is much bigger than should be.
Also you may compare: 64 bit version works fine and has no problem there.

[petermad]

I Cannot confirm this with TC 10.52rc5 32bit under Windows 7

Actually I see the opposite - a menu that shows 36 items with Icons, shows 37 items in the same space without icons (menu that is higher than the available screen height).

Could you provide a couple of screenshots?

[MaxX]

Win 7 Classic - https://i.ibb.co/C5tsSvj/image.png - wrong menus height in x64 (suddenly!)
Win 7 Aero - https://i.ibb.co/ym9VG4v/image.png - wrong menus height in x32
Win 10 21H2 - https://i.ibb.co/b2ZZb6M/image.png - wrong menus height in x32

I've noticed this for all 10.x versions. May be 9.x are affected too, I don't know 'cause didn't test them.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC 32-bit turns off owner-drawn menus when you disable icons. So what you see then is the native Windows menu control. It does indeed have higher menu items, don't ask me why. 64-bit uses the build-in Lazarus menus, which are already owner-drawn menus, so it uses that implementation's menu item height. There is no "right" height here, it's just different methods to calculate them based on font size.

[MaxX]

There's no reason to have such a big space between text lines. I have 720p monitors on some PCs and this heights are not comfortable.
Is there any workaround to fix bigger heights? Please...

[Elwin_Ransom]

2MaxX

any workaround

Well, for example, this hack (see last post in thread)

[ghisler(Author)]

Is there any workaround to fix bigger heights?

It's a Windows-generated thing, so if there is any way to make them smaller, it would be via some registry tweak I don't know of.

[Fla$her]

This is done not through the registry, but through the bottom element of the first drop-down list of this dialog:

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rundll32.exe shell32.dll Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,desc,

The smaller the font size, the smaller the height of the menu bar can be set. The font name also affects this.

[petermad]

This is done not through the registry, but through the bottom element of the first drop-down list of this dialog:

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rundll32.exe shell32.dll Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,desc,

The smaller the font size, the smaller the height of the menu bar can be set. The font name also affects this.

The dialog you refer to is not available after Windows 7 and the botttom element depends on the locale.

[ghisler(Author)]

I found a tool which claims to be able to change the menu item height:
WinAero Tweaker

[Hacker]

Here are more details as to how WinAero Tweaker does it. It seems to only affect the height of the top menu row, though, as in, only the one line on the screen which says "Files Mark Commands Net Show Configuration Start Help", there is no word about the height of the actual items which show up when you click one of these menu headers.

HTH
Roman

[ghisler(Author)]

What about the menu font? Isn't that the same for the menu bar and menu items?

[Horst.Epp]

Yes, these fonts are normaly the same.
I make such changes with the AdvancedSystemFontChanger.
I can set the font, size ,style and bold.
This allows much more than the Aero Tweaker.

It can set:
Title bar
Menu
Message box
Secondary title
Icon
Status bar

https://www.wintools.info/index.php/advanced-system-font-changer

[Fla$her]

The dialog you refer to is not available after Windows 7

It's a pity.

and the botttom element depends on the locale.

How?

[petermad]

2Fla$her

petermad wrote: ↑Wednesday 26-10-2022, 10:35:58
and the botttom element depends on the locale.

How?

The elements are sorted alphabetically, and does not have the same name in different languages: Danish: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/desc.png - here the bottom element is "Værktøjstip" (Tooltip), and I guess you where referring to what is here called "Menu" (highlighted).