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Changing Toolbar bitmap sizes will require a major change and so not simple. As to Password text, you can change the password field text size via: View->Change Font->Password Font.
The change ist not simple but necessary. Have a look at the panel for the find-feature at the bottom of the screen. Its very tiny and all new ultrabooks have high dpi screens installed.
Last edit: Olag Ulga 2015-12-12
Olag makes a good point that I agre with.
I use PasswordSafe on windows and love it more than all of the apps out there in this category that I have tried. I would hate to see it not keep up with high DPI screen as I'm looking at getting a new laptop soon myself.
I imagine that since PasswordSafe developement is based on volunteer effort and updating PasswordSafe to support high DPi is a big effort as DrK implies, it may be a long time before it happens.
One thought I have for Rony to consider is that maybe an effort should be started to actively solicit donations from the PasswordSafe user base to provide some financial incentive to a developer to speed up development of a big change like high DPI support. I have voluntarily donated before but this is something I for one would be willing to do if you think the idea has merit.
Hi,
I'm a bit hampered here as I don't have access to a machine running Win10 with high resolution. I've tried to make a small change that might fix the problem, but I need help in testing it.
If you care to help, please download the zip file
https://pwsafe.org/tmp/pwsafe-3.37.2-bin.zip
unzip the contents in any directory, and try the pwsafe.exe program in that directory. If this resolves the issue, I'll make a formal release soonest. If not, well, back to the drawing board...
Thanks,
Rony
Rony, which one of the problems mentioend (e.g. the Toolbar icons, tiny unhidden passwords, Find panel etc.) is the fix for?
I don't have a high dpi computer right yet. When I get a chance this week, I promise to try it out on a high dpi display laptop at a B&M store.
It should address the graphics (toolbar buttons). It might address the fonts as well, but that can be worked around by explicitly setting the fonts via View->Change Fonts...
Great improvement! Have a look at the printscreens.
It affects the fonts, toolbars and the find-panel. Edit doesn't work. Dump in the attachments.
Last edit: Olag Ulga 2015-12-16
I wouldn't call a crash "great improvement" :-/
I've tried to address the crash in a new version, but again need your help in testing:
https://pwsafe.org/tmp/pwsafe-3.37.2-bin.zip
Thanks!
Haven't tried this on a super high DPI screen yet. I just tried it on one of my 14 inch, 1440x900 laptop.
Some observations:
The tree list font can be made large. However, since the find panel area size is fixed, you shouldn't use too large of a tree list font otherwise text will be cutoff in the find panel area and depending on the font used, sometimes the cursor doesn't show in the find panel area. Arial font seems to work the best for the tree list font.
The password font can also be made larger. Just like the find panel area, the font size chosen shouldn't be too big though to avoid text getting cutoff. I use 'Fixedsys' for the password since it makes it easy to differentiate between 'O' and zero and between 1 and the letter ell etc.
I find that the Title and Username font on the edit entry screen is still very small even on my 1440x900 screen. I guess it will be a lot worse on a super high DPI screen.
The toolbar fonts were okay. I'll report once I try it on a super high dpi screen.
Tried v3.37.2 at a store on a laptop with a 13.3" 2560x1440 display that was running windows 10.
Overall, I would say it worked well enough.
On this laptop, windows dislay scaling defaulted to 200%. Unless you have superman's vision, I can't see how anyone with a super high DPI screen laptop can use applications without windows display scaling set to 200%, maybe even 300%, or more.
As an experiment, I did set the laptop to no display scaling (100%) and then configure pwsafe tree/list font, password font and notes font to larger sizes. It worked, but everything was tiny except for the fonts configured to be larger. As expected, the Title and Username font on the edit entry screen remained tiny, but I could read password and Notes and see the text in the Find panel. Also the toolbar icons remained a good, visible size.
Maybe Olag can comment since I don't own a windows 10 machine. I could not get dragging of a username or password from the dragbar into a login form in the Edge browser to work.
I consider this fixed in commit 95a720b. Will be in next release.
That's much better (I just upgraded to 3.38.01).
If anyone's still having problems, check that you didn't change compatibility settings on an older version. Right click on the password safe taskbar icon / pwsafe.exe file and choose properties. Go to the compatibility tab and ensure "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" is NOT ticked.