High DPI on Windows with Tk

[Christopher Chavez]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a way for using high-DPI appearance on Windows that I found, in case anyone was interested. I have posted it to
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11101747


Before calling MainWindow->new in Tk, use Win32::API to invoke SetProcessDPIAware():

if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
use Win32::API;
# See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setprocessdpiaware
my $SetProcessDPIAware = Win32::API::More->new('User32', 'BOOL SetProcessDPIAware()');
$SetProcessDPIAware->Call() or warn 'Failed to set process DPI awareness';
}


This isn't the approach Microsoft recommends (they suggest using an application manifest instead), but this seems to be an easy enough approach for standalone scripts.


Recent Tcl/Tk will enable high-DPI by default for scripts run using tclsh/wish, but not the Tcl C API. I'm not sure this behavior should be the default in Tcl::pTk, for compatibility (i.e. since Perl/Tk does not enable high-DPI) and because certain elements like images will not be resized automatically.

Maybe Tcl::Tk would be more in favor of having this behavior by default (for consistency with Tcl/Tk), but it might require XS or dependency on another module like Win32::API.


Christopher A. Chavez

[Konovalov, Vadim]

Dell Customer Communication - Confidential

> > From: Christopher Chavez
> > To: tcltk
> > I wanted to
> share a way for using high-DPI appearance on Windows that I
> > found, in case
> anyone was interested. I have posted it to
> >
> https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11101747

Thank you
Pretty nice

> > Before calling
> MainWindow->new in Tk, use Win32::API to invoke
> > SetProcessDPIAware():
> >
> > if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
> > use Win32::API;

Here should be 'require', not 'use'