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HPBEME:
Whoops! We must have posted at the same time, Marko. No, I just kept 2 scale steps. Looks like I may have to add those (which is what I was alluding to at the end in my previous post).
The myriad of monitor resolutions and general window scaling combinations is immense. Not even sure how I would construct those border images to work at in-between thicknesses without making them way bigger than I want at 4K. I will have to think it about it some.
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: marko on February 07, 2021, 01:30:09 pm ---You can sometimes get better real time feedback if you develop it publicly, though doing that, you have to be strong in your mind regarding concessions you're prepared to make
--- End quote ---
I'm in big trouble then... I am very weak-minded :-\ !
zybex:
At 100% scaling the borders are fine.
Note that a full logoff is required to switch scaling. Just restarting MC after changing scaling still keeps some bad artifacts.
HPBEME:
Well that is some good news at least. So... everybody stay at 100% for 2K monitors please! Haha. I will take a look at a remedy for non-100% scale users later this week. But, you know... its Superbowl Sunday today! I can do some forum posts, but not XML and image editing... I am pretty close to completely gassed on this project. Which reminds me... Zybex, do the window control button updates I made match your expectations?
Weird you had to log off for the scaling to take effect. MC always updates for me when I change scale by just closing/opening - I know... MS pops up a dialog warning to sign out, but hey, it works for me. If want to make sure all apps update to the new scale, then yes, logging off or restarting makes sense. Maybe it works for me because I don't run MC server, so when I close MC, its closed. If you are willing to check, make sure you exit both MC and MC server and see if the scale change takes effect without logging off (unless that is what you already did).
Either way, thanks for doing the check.
zybex:
Where are the new buttons? I've just tried re-downloading and re-installing the skin, but there's no Main1Close.png/Main2Close.png files. Just MainClose.png.
I'm testing on my laptop which has only MC Client running (no server), so yes, I did exit all MC components. I still had to logoff to make it look right.
Note that Windows has several different Scaling options that work differently. Apps need to be designed to work for these modes... the new Win10 DPI scaling does a good job of scaling most apps even if they're not DPI-aware, but some will still look bad.
- "Make Text Bigger" slider: this is "Font Scaling". Only font elements are scaled. Usually looks bad.
- "Make Everything Bigger" selector: this is DPI scaling, where I have 125%. this increases all elements proportionally, but rounding and anti-alias can cause pixel artifacts.
- Advanced Scaling - "custom scaling": not sure what this does, but it's a different thing. Many apps I write get messed up by this setting unless I add code to check for this scaling mode.
There's also the "fix blurry apps" setting, which again I'm not sure what it does.
All in all, scaling is quite a bit involved and unless MC recognizes and supports all these modes, there's always some details that will look wrong.
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