Wish: Make GUI font size (e.g. Tooltip) responsive to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Accessibility\TextScaleFactor
Posted: 10 May 2024, 22:53
I'm referring to the "Make Text Size Bigger" accessibility setting in Windows 10, which corresponds to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Accessibility\TextScaleFactor
By default it is set to 100%, but some people find their screen text hard to see and prefer to set it to some higher value (between 100% and 200%). Note that the TextScaleFactor setting only affects font scaling. It has nothing to do with UI scaling or DPI.
On my machine, TextScaleFactor is set to 200%, as in the screenshot below: Among the apps I regularly use, my rough estimate is that about half of them adjust their UI text size based on TextScaleFactor, while the other half simply ignore it. Sometimes, within a single app, some aspects of UI are responsive to TextScaleFactor, while others are not.
Here's an example from System Informer. Note that the main UI and tooltip font size is responsive to TextScaleFactor, but the font size of some texts in the Options dialog is not.
The same is true of Autohotkey (my version is 2.1-alpha.10). The MessageBox font size is responsive to TextScaleFactor, but the Tooltip is not: Would it be possible/easy to make Autohotkey Tooltip's font size responsive to the settings in HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Accessibility\TextScaleFactor?
Thanks!
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Accessibility\TextScaleFactor
By default it is set to 100%, but some people find their screen text hard to see and prefer to set it to some higher value (between 100% and 200%). Note that the TextScaleFactor setting only affects font scaling. It has nothing to do with UI scaling or DPI.
On my machine, TextScaleFactor is set to 200%, as in the screenshot below: Among the apps I regularly use, my rough estimate is that about half of them adjust their UI text size based on TextScaleFactor, while the other half simply ignore it. Sometimes, within a single app, some aspects of UI are responsive to TextScaleFactor, while others are not.
Here's an example from System Informer. Note that the main UI and tooltip font size is responsive to TextScaleFactor, but the font size of some texts in the Options dialog is not.
The same is true of Autohotkey (my version is 2.1-alpha.10). The MessageBox font size is responsive to TextScaleFactor, but the Tooltip is not: Would it be possible/easy to make Autohotkey Tooltip's font size responsive to the settings in HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Accessibility\TextScaleFactor?
Thanks!