I get truncated messages in Lazarus IDE 1.2.6 and 1.4RC3 on Windows 7, see attached jpg-files.

It is annoying not being able to read the complete error messages etc.

Even more annoying when I tested Lazarus 1.2.6 in a virtual XP-machine and found that everything looks 100% perfect!

/anders

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Anders Eriksson wrote

I get truncated messages in Lazarus IDE 1.2.6 and 1.4RC3 on Windows 7, see attached jpg-files.

Judging by the screenshot and what you said about the VM, it seems that your Windows 7 system has "Large Font" or 120dpi font rendering enabled in Windows Control Panel. I'm assuming Lazarus IDE is hard-coded to 96dpi fonts on Windows. If you can, and as a work-around, switch Windows back to 96dpi.

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Thank You for Your fast response!

I tested with normal screen resolution, 100% size, instead of my usual 125%, and I still got the truncation.

What makes me curios is why the truncation appears in**both ends**of the text.

The VM i mentiond earlier is on the same physical machine as my usual Lazarus installation.

I can use the VM-version as a work-around.

/anders

Graeme Geldenhuys skrev den 2015-04-21 10:04:

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Anders Eriksson wrote

What makes me curios is why the truncation appears in**both ends**of the text.

I noticed that, and indeed it is strange. So it seems some other setting or font issue in your Win7 install. Sorry, I'm out of ideas now - I don't run Windows much.

If you build another LCL application (one of the demos, lhelp, lazdatadesktop etc), do they have the same issue as the IDE? If not, maybe try rebuilding the IDE.

The VM i mentiond earlier is on the same physical machine as my usual Lazarus installation.

Well, then the VM is behaving correctly. :) A VM should behave exactly as if it is the only OS on a system - it shouldn't be affected by settings of the host system.

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- Graeme -