How to prevent accessibility scaling in Windows forms (font)

[montag]

I am developing an application that will be pushed to 15k PCs, but I realize I've developed the entire thing to fit according to the default display size setting.

I am referring to the control that can be accessed through Control Panel > Display > Under "Change the size of all items", choose Smaller (default). The problem occurs when scaling up to Medium - 125% or Larger - 150%. Some of our users do this so they can see things better. It blows text up to the point where it's impossible to read and is overlapped by other text, images, and no longer fits on buttons, making it unreadable.

How do I prevent this? I have tried changing AutoScaleMode to every different option, as well as setting Draw Owner to Fixed. Any thoughts? Can I programmatically tell Sapien to ignore the font scaling or arbitrarily set it so that it can't be changed/autoscaled?

Thanks!

Using:

Powershell Studio 2012 vers. 3.1.28
Tested on x64, x86 Win 7 and Win 8

[davidc]

If you use anchoring in with your controls, they should resize and shift accordingly regardless of the DPI settings. You should also consider using the TableLayoutPanel to organize your controls.

But I'm not sure exactly is occurring without a sample form.

For more information on Anchoring, please refer to the following article:

http://www.sapien.com/blog/2011/06/01/p ... -controls/

David