Myopic distress in file access dialogue

[dmstraker]

In Control Panel / System / Display, you can set 'Scale and layout' to such as (for my 40" 4K display) 150%.

Much of AP respects this, giving decent-sized text. However, when you do file access, such as opening or exporting files, it is displayed at the equivalent of 100%. For us visually challenged folks, this required stressful nose-to-screen squinting.

[- S -]

Did you restart the machine after changing the display scaling to 150%?

[Chris B]

Hi Dave.

I think I know what you mean—my system does this from time to time and I've never found the trigger. Sometimes, my 'Open' dialog displays the text on a minute scale... This also happens with Outlook and a few other apps. I've always put it down to Windows usually doing a pretty poor job of scaling apps when you have different size monitors with different DPI scaling options.

A few questions:

1. Are you certain only Affinity does this?
2. Can you provide a screenshot?
3. Does it happen every time for you?
4. Does it affect the release?

Cheers.

[Chris B]

It just happened...

[dmstraker]

1. Are you certain only Affinity does this?
   • Not 100%, but certainly in the upper decile.
2. Can you provide a screenshot?
   • Below
3. Does it happen every time for you?
   • Yup
4. Does it affect the release?
   • Release what?
   • It is happening in 1.6.

[dmstraker]

And full clip, dual screen:

[Chris B]

I think this is Windows just being a pain. I get it daily with Outlook and only occasionally in Affinity when using Explorer.

It only started happening when I swapped one of my 24" 1080p panels for a 27" 4k panel. I've spent more time than I would care to mention trying to fix it in my Windows/ Nvidia settings.

[Mark Ingram]

The file open / save dialogs are provided by Windows, there's nothing we can do about it unfortunately (you may wish to contact Microsoft about this).

[dmstraker]

6 hours ago, Chris B said:

I think this is Windows just being a pain. I get it daily with Outlook and only occasionally in Affinity when using Explorer.

It only started happening when I swapped one of my 24" 1080p panels for a 27" 4k panel. I've spent more time than I would care to mention trying to fix it in my Windows/ Nvidia settings.

It's also happening with my 4K (also NVidia: GForce GTX 650). Maybe Microsoft needs to keep up. Do you have a developer's moan zone you can post on? I'm less than a flea in the trillion dollar MS world. I updated the NVidia drivers, to no avail.

And yet PS, even old CS6 handles it ok...

[Mark Ingram]

I imagine that's because that version of PS isn't high DPI aware.