Setup text cut off/not readable

[TaleTN]

Existing issues matching what you're seeing

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Git for Windows version

git version 2.52.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 2912d8e9b8253723974b7baf1c890273b1a1c5bd
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh
rust: disabled
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.17.0
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025
zlib: 1.3.1
SHA-1: SHA1_DC
SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
default-ref-format: files
default-hash: sha1

Windows version

Windows 10

Windows CPU architecture

x86_64 (64-bit)

Additional Windows version information

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.6456]

Options set during installation

Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path: 
Default Branch Option:  
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFCommitAsIs
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Disabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

Other interesting things

Although the screenshots below are from Windows 10, it's the same on Windows 11.

Terminal/shell

CMD

Commands that trigger the issue

Double-click Git-2.52.0-64-bit.exe, and click Next a bunch of times. :-)

Expected behaviour

Text in setup not cut off, and fully readable. like in v2.51.2 (and older):

Actual behaviour

Most of the pages in the setup contain text that's been cut off, so it's not (fully) readable anymore, e.g.:

Repository

No response

[rimrul]

This is probably fallout from git-for-windows/build-extra#655.

[dscho]

@TaleTN your screenshots look very different from the one I provided in git-for-windows/build-extra#655, do you know why? For example, I see rounded corners both of window and buttons, a different font, different dimensions...

As to fixing this: I suspect that the time we can work around things by adjusting numbers and turning knobs and clinging to that hack where we overwrite the text that is supposed to be styled using a separate control, but by fixing this properly by using a proper rich text control. It would still require a hack (because the radio button control does not support rich text) where we attach "empty" labels and add rich text controls whose position is inherited from those labels. Let's demonstrate that with an example:

Pascal code

[Setup]
AppName=Test
AppVerName=TEST
DefaultDirName="E:\TEST"
AppVersion=1.0
PrivilegesRequired=lowest

[Code]
var
  MyPage: TWizardPage;
  Radio1, Radio2: TRadioButton;
  Rich1, Rich2: TRichEditViewer;

procedure InitializeWizard;
begin
  MyPage := CreateCustomPage(wpWelcome, 'Title: Custom Page', 'Description: Styled radio buttons');

  // Radio buttons with empty captions
  Radio1 := TRadioButton.Create(MyPage);
  Radio1.Parent := MyPage.Surface;
  Radio1.Caption := '';
  Radio1.Left := 20;
  Radio1.Top := 40;

  // Rich text overlay for Radio1
  Rich1 := TRichEditViewer.Create(MyPage);
  Rich1.Parent := MyPage.Surface;
  Rich1.Left := Radio1.Left + 20;
  Rich1.Top := Radio1.Top;
  Rich1.Width := 150;
  Rich1.Height := Radio1.Height; // match radio button height
  Rich1.BorderStyle := bsNone;
  Rich1.Color := MyPage.Surface.Color;
  Rich1.ScrollBars := ssNone;
  Rich1.ReadOnly := True;
  Rich1.TabStop := False;
  Rich1.RTFText := '{\rtf1\ansi{\colortbl;\red255\green0\blue0;} \cf1 Red Option}';

  Radio2 := TRadioButton.Create(MyPage);
  Radio2.Parent := MyPage.Surface;
  Radio2.Caption := '';
  Radio2.Left := 20;
  Radio2.Top := Radio1.Top + Rich1.Height + 10;

  // Rich text overlay for Radio2
  Rich2 := TRichEditViewer.Create(MyPage);
  Rich2.Parent := MyPage.Surface;
  Rich2.Left := Radio2.Left + 20;
  Rich2.Top := Radio2.Top;
  Rich2.Width := 150;
  Rich2.Height := Radio2.Height;
  Rich2.BorderStyle := bsNone;
  Rich2.Color := MyPage.Surface.Color;
  Rich2.ScrollBars := ssNone;
  Rich2.ReadOnly := True;
  Rich2.TabStop := False;
  Rich2.RTFText := '{\rtf1\ansi{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue255;} \cf1 Blue Option}';
end;

Screenshot:

[TaleTN]

@TaleTN your screenshots look very different from the one I provided in git-for-windows/build-extra#655, do you know why? For example, I see rounded corners both of window and buttons, a different font, different dimensions...

I guess your screenshots are from Windows 11, and mine are from Windows 10? Here is is similar screenshot from Windows 11:

[dscho]

That still looks very different from what I see here on Windows 11:

Did you override the system font or something @TaleTN ?

[TaleTN]

Did you override the system font or something @TaleTN ?

@dscho No, this is pretty much vanilla Dutch Windows 10 & 11. Do note that this is with Windows display scale at 100%, and I guess your Windows uses 125%? If I set it to 125% here, then it looks just fine (tested on both Windows 10 & 11).

[dscho]

Hmm. Mine is indeed set to 125%. But then, with 100%, it looks like this over here:

No clipped text at all. No messed-up layout.

[dscho]

Ah, when I reopen the installer after turning the zoom factor to 100%, I can reproduce:

[dscho]

@TaleTN could you please download the installer PR build artifact of my proposed fix and verify that it actually fixes things on your side?

[TaleTN]

@TaleTN could you please download the installer PR build artifact of my proposed fix and verify that it actually fixes things on your side?

@dscho Yeah, that does fix it (as tested on Windows 10). Nice!

[dscho]

@TaleTN thank you for testing!