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Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:36:38 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Display Resolution Variables

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> In many individual app.s, you can choose a particular
> font & ramp up the size of font to compensate . . .
> or am I thinking of that other OS ?

You can drag & drop a font onto a window. In Mozilla you can View ->
Text Zoom.

> What about the desktop, specifically icons ?

In a folder, Properties -> View -> Icon display gives you two choices (I
use multiple column and small icon for many of my folders).

> I thought that OS/2 only offered one
> or at most two icon size options.

I think I saw an add-on once that resized your icons. It was part of a
bigger add-on package. I didn't try it so don't know its capabilites.

> If there is very little in the way of adjustment
> options here, then that would be quite
> unfavorable, vs. what I suspect is possible in Win.

Well, "quite unfavorable" is a bit of an overstatement, at least here,
'cause I don't want to change the size of my icons. :)))

As for what you suspect is possible in Win, there's a *lot* of stuff
that's "suspect" in Win. :)))))))

I *think* you can make OS/2 icons any size you want (you want 4"x4"
icons? No problem!) but I've never tried this. As I recall an icon is a
bit-mapped image, so just change the bitmap. There's a multimedia
folder with huge icons on my machine -- look at your \MMOS2\MOVIES\
directory folder to see them. I don't know where custom bitmaps are
stored; maybe they're in a folder's EAs. On my machine here, the
folders which have custom icons (sometimes I make my own so I can "find
them quick") have EAs which are *much* bigger than the other folders, so
that might be where they are stored. You can play with the Icon Editor
if you want to experiment.

But if you just want all the icons to be bigger, you want a software
add-on that does this on-the-fly.

> Does SNAP offer any overriding adjustment in this regard ?

Do you *just* want bigger icons? SNAP offers zoom but I don't think it
is "aware" of icons.

- Peter

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