[Idle-dev] Simple IDLE improvement

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/26/2018 7:43 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/25/2018 11:52 AM, Elisha Paine wrote:
>> Hi IDLE team
>>
>> I love IDLE (so simple and lightweight compared with other IDEs) and 
>> was just wondering if you could add the following code into pyshell.py 
>> and pyshell.pyw 
> 
> There is, currently, no pyshell.pyw.  pyshell.py is run however IDLE is 
> started.
> (as I have done on mine) because, as you will be able to tell, it sets 
> DPI awareness (and on my set-up makes the text a lot clearer)
> 
> On my wide-screen monitor attached to a video card, using white on dark. 
>   I would not say 'a lot' clearer, but the text is noticeably clearer, 
> box lines are sharper, white and some colors are brighter, and some 
> characters are better formed.  After comparing IDLE without and with the 
> patch to Command Prompt, using the same font and nearly the same size, I 
> conclude that Command Prompt has dpi awareness turned on.
> 
>> import ctypes
>> try: ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness (True)
>> except: pass
> 
> Thank you.  I like it.  I opened
> https://bugs.python.org/issue33656

Fixed merged in time for 3.6.6rc1 and 3.7.0rc1, so it should be in the 
final release of both.


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Terry Jan Reedy