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Disabling font smoothing #225789 09/09/10 03:37 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 37 C Chessnut OP Ameglian cow
OP Chessnut Ameglian cow C Joined: May 2007 Posts: 37	I've been having problems trying to enable and disable font smoothing through mIRC without having to write a dll. I've tried a ridiculous number of methods to turn it off, including: Code: .comopen excel Excel.Application var %call CALL("user32","SystemParametersInfo","AJJJJ", 75,0,0,1) noop $com(excel,executeexcel4macro,3,bstr,%call) comclose excel Code: //run rundll32.exe user32.dll,SystemParametersInfo 75,0,0,1 I've also tried updating these registry values to 0: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothing HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothingType However, this only works when windows is restarted so windows needs to be informed of the change. To achieve this, I have tried: Code: //run rundll32.exe user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters Code: //run rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHChangeNotify 1,0,0,0 and many other combinations besides, none of which work. I realise I can quite easily write a dll to do this, but it seems like overkill for a tiny feature. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would be very grateful! Thanks.

Re: Disabling font smoothing Chessnut #225799 09/09/10 06:58 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Only a small number of functions can be called using rundll32. Your Excel.Application snippet should work if you call SystemParametersInfoA.

Re: Disabling font smoothing Collective #225803 09/09/10 08:32 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 37 C Chessnut OP Ameglian cow
OP Chessnut Ameglian cow C Joined: May 2007 Posts: 37	Ahh, excellent! Thanks Collective. It's a shame I have to rely on a program which may or may not exist on the target computer though Last edited by Chessnut; 09/09/10 08:33 PM.

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