#200 Windows 7 screen with non 100% zooms

[Ari Latvala]

Windows 7, if using anything else but 100% zoom on Windows display settings, Tuxpaint does not display correctly. Full screen mode is totally useles hiding all controls outside of visible screen and on windowed version you can use only significantly lower resolutions than your native resolution to keep everything on screen.

[William Kendrick]

Can you explainw hat "100% zoon on Window display settings" refers to?

Unfortunately, I don't have Windows, and this sounds like an accessibility option in the OS/desktop. If that's the case, please be aware that Tux Paint creates its own UI, so is unfortunately not subject to desktop-wide settings. That said, at the very least, you could run Tux Paint in fullscreen mode, in a lower resolution (e.g., 640x480 or 800x600), which has the side effect of having larger UI elements (buttons, icons, text, etc.). Unfortunately, that means it has a smaller (pixel-resolution) canvas size, too.

Thanks in advance for your clarification.

[Ari Latvala]

Hi

I was talking about the possibility to enlarge default text size and other elements on the screen from 100% to 125% or 150% under Display settings. For the coders I found i.e. these:
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/366732/Windows-screen-size-and-medium-character-siz
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41877
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q321947
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9373260/detect-windows-font-size-100-125-150

I've tried several options on Tuxpaint display settings but none of them really work, so it is pretty much 100% or nothing.

regards: Ari Latvala

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From: wkendrick@users.sf.net
Subject: [tuxpaint:bugs] #200 Windows 7 screen with non 100% zooms
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:51:19 +0000

Can you explainw hat "100% zoon on Window display settings" refers to?

Unfortunately, I don't have Windows, and this sounds like an accessibility option in the OS/desktop. If that's the case, please be aware that Tux Paint creates its own UI, so is unfortunately not subject to desktop-wide settings. That said, at the very least, you could run Tux Paint in fullscreen mode, in a lower resolution (e.g., 640x480 or 800x600), which has the side effect of having larger UI elements (buttons, icons, text, etc.). Unfortunately, that means it has a smaller (pixel-resolution) canvas size, too.

Thanks in advance for your clarification.

[bugs:#200] Windows 7 screen with non 100% zooms

Status: open

Group: v0.9.22

Labels: resolution

Created: Mon Oct 13, 2014 07:26 AM UTC by Ari Latvala

Last Updated: Mon Oct 13, 2014 07:26 AM UTC

Owner: nobody

Windows 7, if using anything else but 100% zoom on Windows display settings, Tuxpaint does not display correctly. Full screen mode is totally useles hiding all controls outside of visible screen and on windowed version you can use only significantly lower resolutions than your native resolution to keep everything on screen.

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[William Kendrick]

@dsikioa if you're still out here, and this is still an issue, could you send a screenshot? Thanks!

[William Kendrick]

At a glance, https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/218/ and this seem the same. Shall I close one?

[Shin-ichi TOYAMA]

I found the same problem is reported from those who are using Tux Paint for kids with disabilities using eye tracking device in Japan.
The problem is default setting of recent PC with heigh resolution tend to be 125%.
I will look into it.
May be the way is to detect current scale setting from windows registry and adjust screen setting with it.

[Shin-ichi TOYAMA]

Ah, I understand what you said in the maintainer's list regarding SDL2.
I confirmed sdl2 version has no problem with scale more than 100%.

[William Kendrick]

Closing, since SDL2.0 version corrects this.