The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Text Zoom, App Name, App Icon (Premium)
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Text zoom
Because the TextBox control in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) doesn’t support zoom natively—the versions in Windows Forms or the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) didn’t either—we’ll need to employ the same workaround we used in previous versions of the app. That is, rather than mapping the font size chosen by the user to the textbox, we’ll instead map it to a global variable named MasterFontSize. Then, we can adjust the font size in the textbox according to the user’s zooming needs without impacting the font size that will be saved and reloaded during each app session.
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