On 6/22/2010 7:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Cute... It pretends to be windows, but isn't...
>
> Cute or horrifying, depending on your point of view. There are some
> things about Windows that you wouldn't *want* to copy!
>
> Even so, many things look very similar yet not quite right. (E.g., that
> command prompt has a totally different aspect ratio.)
>
That aspect ratio issue is entirely dependent on font. You can change 
that even in Windows, and, stupidly, some of the *sizes* are based on 
.FON fonts, which have a completely different ration than the .TTF fonts 
used for the other sizes. It doesn't scale them, or otherwise allow you 
to set an arbitrary size, but is purely *fixed* to what ever internal 
sizes exist in the font definition files. Got to be the stupidest, and 
most annoying, aspect of the whole damn thing, especially if you planned 
to have a "small" copy open, to look at something, but still have it 
legible, while working in other, also open, windows, without having to 
alt-tab between them. Hint - the small enough one for that, isn't 
legible at all (well, unless maybe you had a display 40 inches wide..).

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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