Cutter: Software is not compatible with high resolutions with high DPI

Created on 13 Dec 2018 · 11Comments · Source: rizinorg/cutter

Environment information

Operating System: Windows 10
Cutter version: 1.7.2
File format:

Describe the bug
Running 3200x1800 resolution. Windows is at the recommended scaling of 250%. Some elements of the software does not scale. The majority of it does just fine.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Buy a high resolution screen or a device with one built in.
Run the software.

Expected behavior
For things to scale appropriately.

Screenshots
cutter-high-dpi

Additional context
No.

HacktoberFest UI good first issue

Source

fredddii

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Most helpful comment

Running same DPI as you, to fix this for just your main display do the following:

cmd.exe /c "set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 & cutter.exe"

Currently If you take any other windows and move them to lower DPI monitors the windows look okay but the font will be either too small or too large.

Based off the QT documentation it should be something that can be looked at fixing in the future, I'm interested in helping out if I get some time.

Also it should be relatively easy to add a simple environment variable in a minor release until the rest is sorted. That's my thought.

__References:__
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html

lillypad on 22 Apr 2019

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All 11 comments

Related: #675

pelijah on 18 Dec 2018

Ref: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html

ITAYC0HEN on 18 Dec 2018

@thestr4ng3r do you have any idea about it?

ITAYC0HEN on 13 Feb 2019

Not really, I would have to test myself. But right now I don't have any Windows dev environment set up.

thestr4ng3r on 13 Feb 2019

Running same DPI as you, to fix this for just your main display do the following:

cmd.exe /c "set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 & cutter.exe"

Currently If you take any other windows and move them to lower DPI monitors the windows look okay but the font will be either too small or too large.

Based off the QT documentation it should be something that can be looked at fixing in the future, I'm interested in helping out if I get some time.

Also it should be relatively easy to add a simple environment variable in a minor release until the rest is sorted. That's my thought.

__References:__
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html

lillypad on 22 Apr 2019

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@lillypad thanks for the insights! Can we have your help with handling these issues with DPI? It would be great :)

ITAYC0HEN on 28 Jun 2019

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Yeah I have enough time to make a patch for a minor release to make it a little better.

lillypad on 28 Jun 2019

Thank you very much :)

ITAYC0HEN on 29 Jun 2019

Hey @lillypad, any chance you took a look on this issue? :)

ITAYC0HEN on 19 Jul 2019

I started setting up build environments for testing on different os and graphic environments and started considering to get a monitor.

Those environment varibles are somewhat temporary workarounds that can prevent UI from being terribly broken. We should use them if necessary until proper support is implemented.