Re: [platform-swt-dev] Avoid HiDPI-autoscaling on Windows

[Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

> are the self-drawn buttons on Windows still an issue? They should have
> been fixed with https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506371.
> If that is not true, please comment on this bug.

I've already did 4 days ago.

> To set the scaling factor, IIRC you can use: ./eclipse -vmargs
> -Dswt.autoScale=100

As explained in the mentioned 
<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=508029>, Niraj suggested 
this, but it still autoscaled the graphics operations and the images 
(though for the images I've found a work-around).

--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer


On 28.11.2016 15:17, Lars Vogel wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> are the self-drawn buttons on Windows still an issue? They should have
> been fixed with https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506371.
> If that is not true, please comment on this bug.
>
> To set the scaling factor, IIRC you can use: ./eclipse -vmargs
> -Dswt.autoScale=100
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As soon as SWT implemented the ImageDataProvider, we adopted it for our
> > products (SmartGit, SmartSVN and SmartSynchronize). In the mean-time, you've
> > decided to also add autoscaling of images as well as graphic operations. I
> > thought to have found a good work-around to avoid the autoscaling by setting
> >
> >  DPIUtil.setDeviceZoom(100);
> >
> > very early. Recently, when starting to work on a dark-theme, we discovered
> > that this invocation causes problems with the new self-drawn buttons on
> > Windows:
> >
> > <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=508029>
> >
> > so you either may use a HiDPI screen or themed GUI on Windows - both won't
> > work well together.
> >
> > Judging from  Niraj Modis responses in this bug, it looks like our above
> > work-around is not officially supported. What do others think about this
> > situation?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Thomas Singer
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