Ha! Got your attention. 🙂 This posting is not what you think it is about! So, get your mind out of the gutter. 🙂
A couple of weeks ago, a customer using MQ Visual Edit sent me a screenshot of an issue they were having. The column label on one of the windows was truncated. He was using it on Windows, so I did a quick test on my Windows desktop PC and everything looked normal. I scratched my head and as I was starring at the screenshot and my running copy of MQ Visual Edit, I noticed that his font appeared larger.
After an email exchange with the end-user, I found out that he had set his PC’s screen resolution at “125% of normal” (i.e. DPI of 120).
Now I do have some code in MQ Visual Edit to make the docks larger so that the text would fit but it was more of some simple coding. I had previously tested MQ Visual Edit on Windows, macOS and Linux (desktop) to make sure everything fit in the windows, column labels and buttons but I never thought about testing it for users who might have issue with normal screen resolution. My bad.
It occurred to me that MQ Visual Edit may have the same issue with non English languages even at normal resolution. I have tested non English languages at normal resolution and never noticed an issue but that does not mean end-users might not be having an issue.
So, I have spent the last 2 weeks adding code to MQ Visual Edit to get the font width of each label, button text, etc. and calculating the necessary width of the component and setting the size. It has been a whole lot of tedious work but I am happy to say everything is looking good. I even set my laptop’s screen resolution to “125% of normal” and been using it to test all of the screens.
I have also made the changes to MQ Visual Browse and MQTT Message Viewer.
If you are having an issue with truncated text, labels, buttons, etc. then send me an email and I will send you the latest release of MQ Visual Edit, MQ Visual Browse or MQTT Message Viewer. Send the email to support@capitalware.com
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
