Howto adjust font of document selector?

JimJinkins · Post by **JimJinkins** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:05 pm

Does anyone know a way to adjust the font of the Document Selector? either from within TextPad, in the Windows Screen Properties notebook, or in the Windows Registry?

I run Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP with a 19 inch monitor.
The Windows Screen Properties ==> Appearance font is ExtraLarge.
The Windows Screen Properties ==> Settings screen area is 1280x1024 pixels.
The Windows Screen Properties ==> Settings advanced font size is 150% (144 dots/in).

In TextPad 4.7.3, the font of the document selector is too small to read. I looks like 8 or 9 pixels vertically.

In the full-screen text area with the document selector suppressed, 12 pt Courier New covers 86 columns from left margin to right margin.

talleyrand · Post by **talleyrand** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:26 pm

There is not a supported way at the moment to achieve your goal. However, if you search through the forums, someone posted a hack over a year ago. Basically it involves editing the resource files and they linked an editor and a short how to on the thread. Granted, they were adjusting the size of the search and replace dialog but I suspect the same tricks could be employed to adjust the document selector.

Best of luck with it.

OrbMan · Post by **OrbMan** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:31 pm

Try this thread:

http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5054

JimJinkins · Post by **JimJinkins** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:53 pm

Thanks OrbMan.

I downloaded the resource editor at http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ that was mentioned in the thread. When I finish my current project, resource editing looks like a useful thing to learn.

In the meantime, I followed another suggestion from the thread by adjusting the Windows fonts until I can live with the results in all my apps including TextPad. I also will submit an enhancement request to Helios, asking for more control of font sizes in TextPad's menus and dialogs.

Jim