I remember there is some Windoze key combination to change the size of the font for displayed text. Can anyone tell me what it is?
Never mind, I just found it.
For those who aren’t WunderBob and are wondering:
Control + increases the font size, in repeatable steps
Control - decreases it, similarly.
Control 0 takes it back to the default
All these are using the +, -, and 0 keys on the numeric keypad, with NumLock on.
IIRC the same combinations with the Command key work on the Mac, but I won’t vouch for this.
Those key combinations aren’t for Microsoft Windows in general, though they may be supported in individual applications, such as many popular web browsers. Also, I don’t think it’s necessary to use the + and - on the numeric keypad.
In XP and earlier you can go to Control Panel, Display, Appearance and adjust font size at the Windows level. The ability to do the same in Vista seems limited. I do not have Windows 7 to check that out.
In all three systems, that method only lets you choose from two sizes.
I use the large size, and I still can’t believe how many programs, and I mean very famous programs in version 10 or higher, don’t take into account that some people may use this feature, and so they have dialog boxes where the printing, and sometimes even the “OK” or “Cancel” buttons, don’t show up, because they are outside the hard-coded boundaries of the box.
The classic programming text for Windows is by Charles Petzold, and from the first version 20 years ago, he stressed the importance of testing for font and window size, and making sure you program your app to adjust for changes. It is absolutely beyond me how so-called professional programmers can be ignorant of this crucial factor.
You said it. And Og forbid you use a light-on-dark colour scheme instead of the more common dark-on-white. All too often ignorant programmers hard-code their text colour as black instead of doing it properly and setting it to the system text colour. This goes not just for Microsoft Windows applications but also for those on practically any other operating system.
Pressing ctrl and rotating the wheel on the mouse will change the font size in some (a lot ?) of programs.