win32 controls are getting clipped from edges in Visual Studio 2013

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Hi I have recently migrated the VC++ code from visual studio 2010 to visual studio 2013. Source code contains two type controls 1. Win32 Controls 2. MFC Controls. After building the code in visual studio 2013 the win32 controls are getting distorted i.e static texts or buttons are getting merged in to frame of window. Please see the link for images of control in both version of Visual Studio : imgur.com/a/2w4y8 . Please help.

Posted 13-Jan-16 15:57pm

WENzER

Updated 14-Jan-16 0:10am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jan-16 0:49am

What's the use of showing pictures? No code sample, no explanation of the problem. How can you imagine figuring out what's going on?
—SA

Jochen Arndt 14-Jan-16 4:23am

The position of the controls is set somewhere in your application. So check your code and/or resource files.

As already mentioned by Sergey, we can't help without having that information.

WENzER 14-Jan-16 6:09am

The code is same nothing changed from VS2010 it is working fine with VS2010. But the same code when am building on VS2013 the WIN32 controls are getting clipped as shown in images. I thought it may be related to DPI settings so when I changed the DPI settings of my monitor to 125 it looked better but not as VS2010. Then I build the code by changing VS2013 Project Manifest Property to High DPI Aware. but that also did not work.

Jochen Arndt 14-Jan-16 6:38am

I had a look at the image (what I and most here normally not would do).

The upper dialog has a thin border while the lower one has a thicker one. As a result, the embedded controls (especially the rectangle) are moved right and down by the border thickness and are clipped at the right / bottom.

So the problem is sourced by the dialog frame where both does not look like a common Windows dialog.

If you did not solve the problem yourself with this information, you should at least show us how those uncommon dialog frames are created.

WENzER 14-Jan-16 6:46am

Ok,Its an legacy application and control code is written in an RC file *.dlg file code written something like :

INITAPP DIALOG 96, 98, 167, 67
STYLE WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION
CAPTION "XYZ"
BEGIN
CONTROL "", INIT_FRAME, "static", SS_BLACKFRAME | WS_CHILD, 4, 4, 156, 56
CONTROL "", INIT_LINE1_STATIC, "static", SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD, 8, 14, 127, 8
CONTROL "", INIT_LINE2_STATIC, "static", SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD, 8, 38, 127, 8
CONTROL "", INIT_ICON, "STATIC", SS_ICON | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 140, 8, 13, 13
END

WENzER 14-Jan-16 7:22am

I think the issue is with thicker border in Visual Studio 2013 which is clipping the controls. Any idea how to resolve this?

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WENzER · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-14T02:36:00

I Think issue was with the border frame thickness of dialog box. I changed the following property in project settings & that worked for me.
Project Properties->Configuration Properties->General->Platefortoolset, set it to

VB.NET

Visual Studio 2013 - Windows XP (v120_xp)

And it worked. Thanks everyone for help