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What are dialog box units? What is the difference between window size in pixels and dbu?

April 26, 2017Box dbu dialog difference pixels size units window

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What are dialog box units? What is the difference between window size in pixels and dbu?

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The size of window created using dbu size depends on the font size used on the user machine. This allows the window to fit all text regardless of user font size (120 or 96 dpi). With small fonts 1 horizontal dbu is 1.5 pixels, and 1 vertical dbu is about 1.6243 pixels.