What is your screen resolution?
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:02 pm
Background: I use my own software on two computers, one in the lab with an actual machine. It had 1600 x 1200 screen, no scaling. The other Computer is in my office with a high resolution screen. The screen is big enough that I don't use scaling on that either. To help in software writing (more code visible at one time), I bought a new screen to my lab. 4k resolution but only 28" size, so some scaling on Windows font sizes was needed (125%). I immediately found an issue that I wasn't aware of: Windows scales the items on LitePlacer software, which makes the screen not only look ugly, but also pushes some controls off screen. This is not good.
But since I haven't had complaints, I wonder if the issue really is as ugly as it seems to me and you are just not raising your voices, or if the issue does not really concern that many people. I'd like to know, so please vote on this and the scaling poll at viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5991 (the forum software does not support multiple polls on one post).
I use the results to decide if I need to redo the whole UI layout (although I like the interface where all relevant data is visible). Or maybe I canf ix the layout so that it is usable on scaled displays. Likely, I would need to increase the size of the window for this, but if you don't use screens big enough, then no. Perhaps I can persuade Windows not to scale the UI, but if the result is too small for your screens, that is not good either.
I need to do something, and the options are very different in terms of the amount of work needed. To be able to choose, I need your data. Also, comments are much appreciated!
But since I haven't had complaints, I wonder if the issue really is as ugly as it seems to me and you are just not raising your voices, or if the issue does not really concern that many people. I'd like to know, so please vote on this and the scaling poll at viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5991 (the forum software does not support multiple polls on one post).
I use the results to decide if I need to redo the whole UI layout (although I like the interface where all relevant data is visible). Or maybe I canf ix the layout so that it is usable on scaled displays. Likely, I would need to increase the size of the window for this, but if you don't use screens big enough, then no. Perhaps I can persuade Windows not to scale the UI, but if the result is too small for your screens, that is not good either.
I need to do something, and the options are very different in terms of the amount of work needed. To be able to choose, I need your data. Also, comments are much appreciated!
