Does not look good with high dpi (4k displays) about ps2exe HOT 11 CLOSED

Hello Christian,

I guess you mean the Powershell ISE.

OK, I understand. This could be done with a manifest. I see the problem that this manifest would have to be different for Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

Maybe you could try this code at the beginning of your powershell script before opening any window:

Add-Type -Name WinDPI -Namespace Native -MemberDefinition '
[DllImport("SHCore.dll", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool SetProcessDpiAwareness(PROCESS_DPI_AWARENESS awareness);

public enum PROCESS_DPI_AWARENESS
{
    Process_DPI_Unaware = 0,
    Process_System_DPI_Aware = 1,
    Process_Per_Monitor_DPI_Aware = 2
}
'

[Native.WinDPI]::SetProcessDPIAwareness([Native.WinDPI+PROCESS_DPI_AWARENESS]::Process_Per_Monitor_DPI_Aware) | Out-Null

If the parameter Process_Per_Monitor_DPI_Aware is not what you want you could try Process_System_DPI_Aware instead.
This should work beginning with Windows 8.1 but I do not know what happens in ISE.

Greetings

Markus

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Hello chbwien,

you're obviously right. Please give me some time to investigate (it's Corona time and I'm at home working and supporting two little children). And don't expect much, since PS2EXE uses WinForms so the possibilities are limited.

Greetings

Markus

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Hello Christian,

made some tests with scaling and found that the fonts doesn't look god with other scales but the controls scale fine. Using the advanced WinForm features introduced with Creators Update didn't change anything for me.

I enabled visual styles with the new version 1.0.4 so buttons look better. I do not what more I can do. Do you have a special situation or window where the view is problematic?

Greetings

Markus

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Hello Christian,

sorry, I do not see any screenshot.

Are you talking about your own WinForms windows generated by your PowerShell script or about the windows PS2EXE generates?

Greetings

Markus

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Hello Christian,

ok, I understand now. I thought that you were worried about the look of the PS2EXE generated windows.

I'm not sure if we can get what you want because the high DPI support of WinForms are limited.

• How is the look if you execute your script "not compiled" as a PowerShell script?
• Can you transfer your script to WPF windows? Only WPF delivers a good high DPI look.

Greetings

Markus

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You're welcome

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