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Hi There.
I joined here some three years ago when i created my ONE and ONLY Python program that actually functions as intended YAY, it's a little ugly and i've decided to return and learn more, improve it and maybe start up some new projects.

I'm a little confused as this isn't the regular forum layout so if i make some mistakes, please forgive me and i'll do my best to mimimise the damage and learn. I've got some catching up to do :)

My question for today. I use a locked window, you can't move it, resize it etc, BUT i found from one PC to another, some text and some buttons will shift, on one PC everything looks great, same code, different PC, buttons will overlap. I can't work out why. Is it out on my control like a video card driver, or can it be fixed in my code somehow. ALso, i did have a machine where it looked perfect but i can't access that machine right now, so you have to take my word for it, it used to look all good.

*The logo is intentionally missing and doesn't affect what i'm trying to show

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P.S. This isnt' homework :)

P.P.S. My guess at this issue, i need to choose and lcok down a windows system font and set my code to use only that font and size on every PC. Not sure how that's done assuming thats the solution.

EDIT: Gained access to my 32bit XP machine and the buttons and text line up perfectly. Its a clean and fresh install

Thanks for your time.

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It would be helpful to tell us which GUI toolkit and layout manager (boxsizer, gridsizer etc.) you used

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EDIT: Gained access to my 32bit XP machine and the buttons and text line up perfectly. Its a clean and fresh install

Thanks for your time.

Let's assume then that this is solved.

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Sorry no it isn't solved, that's the issue, everything lined up in XP, but on Windows 7 machiens, the screenshots are as above, out of alignment.

I don't understand the question back, but i use tkinter to draw my graphics.
I did make it mildly better by locking the font and box size but i found the boxes "grew fatter" on some other windows 7 machines. I still can't work out if screen res is doing it, a driver or my code.

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