Visual Basic

It might be a good IDE, but when it comes to the graphical side of design, it can't hold a candle to even Paint, let alone Fireworks and Photoshop. If everything were in pixels by default, then I wouldn't mind... but it ain't.

I know I can change the scale thing from twips to pixels, but I can't do jack with the grid that you draw on. Is there any way to set the distance between the dots in the program options?

Unfortunately, that's an ancient artifact of Windows dialog design that has long haunted programmers. The issue is that depending on the DPI setting in the display control panel, the size of the font can change. Or at least it used to; I think I've checked with XP and it doesn't anymore. So that's the deal with that. You can always programaticly set the layout if it's that much of an issue. When I do stuff like frame sliders that needs exact relationships, I just place it aproximately in the dialog template (form), then set it exactly in code.