>>My point is, if people are not squinting at your application unless they are squinting at all other applications in Windows, and the cure in that case is to lower the resolution. And people with low resolutions don't want your app to shrink down so they have to squint.
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>>From my experience, the only people that use high resolutions are the ones who prefer it, and by changing your screen element sizing, you are ignoring the preferences that they have already expressed.
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>>As near as I can tell, most of the textboxes and dropdowns in Windows itself, as well as other MS and popular applications is about 23 pixels high, and the standard font size is 9. Users make their resolution decision based on the ease or difficulty using/reading these standard controls. Who am I to rock the boat? Why should my app be the only one on their entire machine that uses its own screen element sizes?
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>You're app may not be the only one - I have (and have seen) others that are control-oriented that do it also, made by various manufacturers.
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>But anyway, I don't think you're understanding the way the most high res users set things up. Most common apps - like Word, Excel, Win Explorer, IE, Outlook, either in Control Panel or within the apps (word docs, e.g) -- have ways to reset text size so that squinting at high res. is not necessary. There are not a lot of controls like textboxes, dropdowns, etc, to worry about with most of these apps, anyway.
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I'll concede a bit, and say that this functionality could be useful, I just don't think it should be automatic. I think maybe a good compromise is the way that IE handles it: allow the user to resize by setting a menu option.