"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote

| It was as if someone said "these newbies, we won't have them changing
| the appearance all the time - only we 'advanced' folk should have access
| to what everyone did before."
| That's exactly it. Inexperienced people are intimidated
by the Advanced button. MS know that. That's why IE
cookie settings, for example, were hidden behind an
Advanced button -- to makre sure no one disables cookies.

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:48:26 -0400, "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>"Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote
>
>| My Win7 has Ease of Access centre, accessible from Control Panel/ Make
>| the computer easier to see/ Make things on the screen larger/ Change the
>| size of text and icons.
>|
>
> I never noticed that before. At any rate, it's not on XP.
>I'm guessing the Win7 version is just an accessibility
>presentation of what's on XP. It's rarely used and generally
>not a good idea.
>
> I ran across it many years ago writing software. I'd never
>heard of anyone actually changing text size. But it came up
>in a programming discussion and I realized that Windows didn't
>actually handle it. The setting would make all the label text in
>my program window bigger, but leave everything else the same,
>so that text often got snipped. I learned that in order to
>accommodate anyone using that setting I had to leave extra
>space on all labels.
>
> For example, if I had a button with text under it that said,
>"Browse for File", I'd have to make sure there was plenty of
>room for the text to get bigger. Long story short, the setting
>works but may cause surprises in some software windows.
>

Not a surprise when you are expecting that to happen at times. .

If you can't infer what the text says, and need to know, you can copy it from the container and paste it
as a search argument (for example) and the copy function will usually get the whole line, whether it is
displayed on the terminal or not.

jim