Category: UI

How to build high DPI aware native Windows desktop applications

Posted on by Marius Bancila

If you’re developing native applications for Windows using Win32 or MFC and you want to support high DPIs so that the application looks crisp on any display, you have to do a lot of things by hand. That is because the technologies for building native UIs, that is MFC, GDI, GDI+, do not provide DPI scaling support. In this article, I will walk through some of the problems of supporting DPI scaling and the solutions for them.

Changing the color schemes of your development tools

Posted on by Marius Bancila

The tools I use the most as a developer include the command prompt, notepad, Visual Studio, and Total Commander. The trouble is, I don’t really like the default colors they come with. However, some of them can be customized with different color schemes. Some very popular color schemes are Solarized and OneHalf, both having a light and a dark version. In this article, I will show how to enable Solarized for them.

I Just Want to Delete the Cache

Posted on by Marius Bancila

I recently read an excerpt from Joel Spolsky’s book User Interface Design For Programmers available on his (former) blog. This is a great book about designing user interfaces, with examples of bad and good ideas. I’m getting the printed version and I recommend this to all building UIs. Now, yesterday I had a problem with…