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On operating system level (Windows 2000), I have set the following font settings for windows dialog boxes:

Font: MS sans serif
Font-size: 10

MyInfo adopts these settings for most of its own dialog boxes. When doing so, sometimes dialog box text gets cut off on some part. In many cases this is just ugly. But there are cases when relevant dialog text is not there anymore, e. g. in the "Find And Replace" dialog.

This GUI issue was here in MyInfo 3 and I hoped it would be fixed in MyInfo 4.

Can you either make the dialog boxes be more tolerant for increased font sizes or can you make the dialog box font size user customizable?

I've experienced similar problems with text being cut off in dialog and options settings boxes in MyInfo.

That said, MyInfo isn't alone in this. It seems to be a pretty universal Windows software problem caused when users choose "Large Fonts" in Windows Display Properties: Appearance dialog. Also, using non-standard fonts (something other than Tahoma on XP), or simply specifying a larger than normal font size for menus or icons in the Display Properties: Appearance and leaving other front sizes unchanged seems to be the root cause.

One presumes that when the programmer creates the dialog boxes that they could allow for "oversize text" by editing the message to be shorter or by using two lines for item's message. In my opinion incomplete text in dialog boxes is a design error that could be avoided if more testing were done with Large Fonts turned on.

My Windows XP Appearance prefs are set to Large Fonts to make text more readable. I find the cut-off text to be annoying, but so far it hasn't caused software errors.

We have to test that. I think that it will be fairly easy to make it work with large fonts.

We have tested MyInfo under large fonts and it really has some cut off text there. We have enlarged the dialogs where it was necessary, so it will work fine in MyInfo 4.01.