Xtife Posted February 25, 2012 I was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem before. This is what ZDL looks like for me on my new win7 computer, http://i.imgur.com/zeXSD.png and I can't resize it On my old winxp machine, it worked fine. Im wondering if im missing anything for it to work right. 0 Share this post Link to post
Porsche Monty Posted February 25, 2012 Known issue apparently. No workaround as far as I know. http://www.doomworld.com/vb/source-ports/58449-make-zdl-go-to-main-menu-instead-of-first-level/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted February 25, 2012 Well that sucks big fat ones. i need to find a new launcher now with zip and pk3 support. im just glad it isnt something on my end 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted February 25, 2012 What can you do if some people thing that 'the smaller, the better'? This micro-sized window has been bothering me since ZDL first appeared. Of course it had to break at some point. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted February 25, 2012 Try to reduce font size. Right-click on your desktop. Choose "Personalize". Select "Window color and appearance", then "open classic appearance properties for more color options", and then click on the "Advanced" button. From there you can change and resize the fonts used by various UI elements. Use smaller settings and see if it fixes it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Porsche Monty Posted February 25, 2012 Graf Zahl said:What can you do if some people thing that 'the smaller, the better'? This micro-sized window has been bothering me since ZDL first appeared. Of course it had to break at some point. ZDL may be lightweight, fast and unobtrusively feature-rich, but I agree the size and rigidity of the GUI is an arse to the face. Perhaps he was just trying to be consistent with the "smallest" philosophy that influenced other aspects of the app? Either way, this can't possibly be that hard to fix with the source code available. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted February 25, 2012 Does it happen with all versions or just 3.1a? I'm running 3.1 on Win 7 64 bit and it works just fine: 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted February 25, 2012 I think this is because im using a resolution of 1920x1080 and it just resizes all elements regardless of whether it is support by the program or not. Resizing the font might work, but then i couldn't read it at all, it needs to be a per application option. Or just releasing an updated version is also a possibility, I prefer this option :p 0 Share this post Link to post
exp(x) Posted February 25, 2012 Hey GUI designers, there is usually no good reason to disallow window resizing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted February 25, 2012 Xtife said:I think this is because im using a resolution of 1920x1080 I run 1920x1200 which isn't too dissimilar I would have thought. 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted February 25, 2012 He probably re-adjusted the DPI of Windows. The default is 96 dpi, but if you have something like 120 dpi, well, ZDL comes out like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted February 25, 2012 I did have it set at 125% larger, and i set it to 100% but it made no difference 0 Share this post Link to post
Pirx Posted March 8, 2012 Enjay said:Does it happen with all versions or just 3.1a? I'm running 3.1 on Win 7 64 bit and it works just fine: that's exactly how i see it too, on win7 64 bit, in both 1920x1080 and x1200, at standard dpi. 0 Share this post Link to post
[PROTOTYPE] Posted March 8, 2012 Or you can try ZDLSharp, an improved version of ZDL. Works like clockwork on my Win7 machine. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted March 8, 2012 It's version and C++ redist-dependant. Only solution is to use the 3.1a fixed version, that comes with the big-ass bundled runtime .dlls. 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted March 9, 2012 I have used ZDLSharp as well, it has its UI cuttup as well but not near as bad as 3.1a 0 Share this post Link to post
Brewtal_Legend Posted April 6, 2012 I get the same issue on winxp. I thought I remembered seeing a fairly recent thread about someone making a new version of zdl that fixes this problem. I can't seem to find the thread though. It was either here or in zdoom forums. Anyone else see it? 0 Share this post Link to post
TIHan Posted April 7, 2012 The tool should probably be re-written in WPF. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ramon_Demestre Posted April 9, 2012 I made a 120dpi version for anyone interested. http://gillibert.homelinux.net/BINNT/120dpiZDL.zip It is based on version 3.1a I hope it helps! 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted April 9, 2012 Ramon_Demestre said:I made a 120dpi version for anyone interested. http://gillibert.homelinux.net/BINNT/120dpiZDL.zip It is based on version 3.1a I hope it helps! I get errors when I try to open it :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Ramon_Demestre Posted April 9, 2012 Sorry, I had not tested on NT based os, just my Win98. I did that quickly. It seems that the exe is not valid for NT, that is strange, I thought I only made modifications with ResHacker. I am far from my PC for the moment and for all week; what you could do is just Copy/Past dialog resources from cracked one to a vanilla 3.1a with any resource editor. Sorry for bad exe 0 Share this post Link to post
Brewtal_Legend Posted April 9, 2012 Having problems too. It won't run. I'm using win xp. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ramon_Demestre Posted April 13, 2012 Know I have fixed the problem. For information wat i did is just to make the dialog smaller; because the program resize its windows in a pixels fixed size and not relative to font size. So if you use something else than 120dpi, it will look bad! I know it is a stupid, quick and dirty hack... Still the same link: http://gillibert.homelinux.net/BINNT/120dpiZDL.zip Tested on XP this time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Xtife Posted April 13, 2012 Ramon_Demestre said:Know I have fixed the problem. For information wat i did is just to make the dialog smaller; because the program resize its windows in a pixels fixed size and not relative to font size. So if you use something else than 120dpi, it will look bad! I know it is a stupid, quick and dirty hack... Still the same link: http://gillibert.homelinux.net/BINNT/120dpiZDL.zip Tested on XP this time. Regardless, it's more than anyone else has done for this :) It works for me now, and it's awesome :D Thanks for doing this 0 Share this post Link to post
Ramon_Demestre Posted April 13, 2012 I made 2 new versions, this time, I disbled (NOPed) the call to USER32.DLL:SetWindowPos and I set to not grayed by default the lower part of dialog box. With this, it should work with any dpi settings. However, you will not have the Hide/Show details option, dialog is always in detailed mode. I although added a uzdl.exe (u for micro) wich has the very small dialog I made for 120dpi settings but who this time works with any dpi settings. http://gillibert.homelinux.net/BINNT/ZDLpp.zip If you like damn small clostrophobic layouts then give it a try... 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted April 16, 2012 Bumpity bump bump: anybody who experiences the problems described in this thread might want to check out QBasicer's just-released qZDL beta. It boasts compatibility with Windows 7 and a resizable layout amongst other things. 0 Share this post Link to post