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Hi Mark Yes that would help but I have to stick at 125%. The UIs of all the other pieces software on the computer (bar one) look 'normal' and work okay at this size (Windows 8 calls it 'Medium') so I had hoped AD would too. However I do appreciate that as AD is a professional design app, users with this screen size who want or need this scale are quite reasonably not a priority and also I understand that parity with the Mac is the primary goal at the moment. But if there were to be some UI scaling options down the line that would be great - and if I were to be greedy we would be able to pick any display dpi as in Blender.

Hi Mark I still have this problem in 1.5.0.5 on a 1366 x 768 screen at 125% scaling

Hi Revellution It is not just your computer, I have the same issue and behaviour. As you can see on the screenshot the Opacity slider is set to 100% for the green rectangle layer but the rectangle remains semi-transparent.

Personally I find it swifter to switch between Shift and CTRL to scroll left/right or up/down - but I guess that's why they call it 'preferences'! However I think all of our zoom/scroll preferences digresses a bit from the 'issue' that prompted St3v3 to start this thread, which essentially is that after choosing to 'Use mouse wheel to zoom' a user might not expect the horizontal scroll method to be different. It doesn't really matter what the horizontal scroll method was before or what it is after, it is the fact that it changes that has caused the discussion. St3v3 expected the option to simply toggle CTRL+mouse wheel between zooming and vertical scrolling. That seems a reasonable assumption based on other programs around and an elegant way of doing things. I think it comes down to two questions: Is it reasonable for a user to expect the horizontal scrolling method to remain constant when 'Use mouse wheel to zoom' is selected? Is there actually a need (from a user's point of view not a coder's) to change the horizontal scrolling method when 'Use mouse wheel to zoom' is selected? In the end it doesn't matter too much, either way is more than useable - perfect for some, okay for others, just like most software.

Hi Mark I think what some of us wonder from a user point of view why there is any need to change the horizontal scrolling method. I can accept that it may make sense from a coding standpoint but for consistency of use it feels wrong. I think what we as users expect to happen from the option is for it to effectively toggle how CTRL works, between CTRL+mouse wheel zooming and CTRL+mouse wheel scrolling vertically - and for it to leave horizontal scrolling untouched. It is not obvious to the user that the option is actually about whether CTRL is needed to scroll or not. The option for the user is about zooming, so it intuitively feels that the practical change is about CTRL and zooming not CTRL and scrolling. It may be looking at the same thing from two directions but from the user's point of view things look subtly different. From this side of the fence the logic or necessity to change how horizontal scrolling works is unclear. Is it to keep in line with the Mac version or is there another reason? Would you be open to considering leaving Shift+mouse wheel as the method under both zoom options? It seems to me that adding a second keypress unnecessarily complicates things. I would have thought on the whole that you would only require the use of two modifier keys when there was no better option. On the positive side, we would all do well to remember that we do have the option to pan in all directions by simply holding down the mouse wheel or by holding the Space Bar and left mouse dragging.

Chris, thanks for that. Yes you are right, I checked I am at 125% - although I had forgotten that there was an option. I'll have to stick at that for the sake of the rest my stuff but it is good to know why it was off. Thanks again Iain

I am experiencing a few display errors (in 1.5.0.2 and still in 1.5.0.4): On the View menu I can only see the top half of the 'Grid and Axis Manager' option below 'Snapping Manager...' Going down the menu with the arrow key there are a nine presses when the 'selection' is off screen, so I presume there are at least nine more options? Also the last option visible on the Layer menu is 'Fill Mode' but from the down arrow key there is at least one more. When searching Help, only the top half of the final line of text in the results shows. Extending the height of the pop-up window does not help. When clicking the Snapping options drop down menu, the options in the bottom two grey rectangles do not display properly: there is no text, just what looks like cropped check boxes. This is on a 1366x768px Windows 8 (not 8.1) laptop. A couple of comments on the environment: Everything seems so BIG on a 1366x768 screen. The minimum width of the docked panels takes up a quarter of the screen width, that seems too much. It is more than AI, Corel Draw or Draw Plus (but similar to Inkscape) on the same resolution screen. Also a small icons option would reduce the top area which is about a fifth of the screen - about double that of AI (and bigger than CD, DP and IS). Finally, I agree with many others that a lighter environment would be good as an option - I generally prefer a neutral surround but it would be nice to have the choice of light, dark or inbetween. Grumbles aside, thank you for all the hard work and effort you are putting in to this.