Dialogue boxes tiny

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Steve Howard

I have encountered this several times, and I can fix it by restoring from
backup (sometimes) or by reinstalling everything on my PocketPC from
scratch... but I want to find the actual cause and a solution.

Sometimes when I install a piece of software to the PocketPC (Toshiba E830
running PPC 2003 SE, using SE_VGA to force 'true' VGA), MessageBoxes and
many dialogues become so small they are unreadable. Dialogues include the
address bar in PocketIE, the forms for the built-in backup software and many
'properties' or 'settings' dialogues for different software.

So what causes it? A registry key? A corrupt dll? Something else?

I have only tracked down one piece of software that consistently causes is
... version 3.0 of Virtual PC. It weans fixed in version 3.1. I asked the
developer about this issue but I have received no response so far ...


Any suggestions?


Steve
 
Check your registry. There are settings that can change the size of OS
elements. See this:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/01/how-small.html
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply, and what sounded like a great place to try.

However, I could not edit any of the keys directly on my PPC since all the
registry editors I tried present the same problem - all dialogues are so
small they are unreadable.

I tried removing the existing keys one by one, and it did not fix the
problem, so I suspect the problem is not caused by a registry entry - unless
of course it is one stored in a different area of the registry.

Any other suggestions?


Steve
 
Steve,

It sounds like you were unable to edit the registry on the device
because the dialogs were too small (but in your second paragraph, it
sounds like you *did* change the registry entries, so I'm not quite
clear..).

In case you still need to edit the registry on the device, I have two
suggestions:

1) If you have eMbedded Visual C++ installed (or VS2005), you can use
the Remote Registry Editor

2) Install the Remote Display Control [1] and set the viewer on your
desktop to 2x or larger, then use the registry editor on the device to
edit the registry keys that Daniel provided.

hth,
Nino

[1]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wce/downloads/ppctoys.mspx#EGAA
 
Nino,
It sounds like you were unable to edit the registry on the device because
the dialogs were too small (but in your second paragraph, it sounds like
you *did* change the registry entries, so I'm not quite clear..).
Click to expand...

I was able to read and delete keys becuase one tool I used displayed them
legibly. But nothing I had access to allowed me to use the edit dialogues
because they were unreadable.
In case you still need to edit the registry on the device, I have two
suggestions:

1) If you have eMbedded Visual C++ installed (or VS2005), you can use the
Remote Registry Editor
Click to expand...

Ah - wasn't aware that such a thing existed. I'll try that. I'll test it out
later today.
2) Install the Remote Display Control [1] and set the viewer on your
desktop to 2x or larger, then use the registry editor on the device to
edit the registry keys that Daniel provided.
Click to expand...


I already tried this - I used Virtual CE Pro - but increasing the screen
size didn't help since the screen view simply doubles the pixels. The text
is no more than one pixel tall ... :-(


Thanks!!!


Steve
 
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