I've just always wondered why it doesn't do what its supposed to. It would be great to know that something that fills 1/4 the screen on someones monitor at 800X600 would take the same amount of space on someone elses running at 1280x1024 but it just doesn't work that way even tho its supposed to.
That's not what DBUs are supposed to do. "look the same" refers to the way
controls within the dialog are displayed under different resolutions
and different font sizes: in Windows' Display options, you can adjust the font size (DPI) of displayed text. If your dialog uses pixels, some of the text may not fit in the dialog under some combination of resolution and DPI and will be chopped. Using DBUs ensures that this will never happen.
For more information, Google "dialog base units".
