Better DPI support (1 Viewer)

[mdekkers]

Hey all - have been using MP for a while now - loving it! I do have a small bugbear I would love to see addressed - I use MP with a large television (52") driven through an NVIDIA 6600 via the TVout on that card. My running resolution is HD 1080p. When MP is up and running everything looks fine, but when it isn't (like, for running MP setup or somesuch, everything on screen is nearly invisible, due to the resolution. The best way to deal with that is to properly set your DPI, which for me would be pretty high - about 175% of the original. This blows up all the fonts etc. Unfortunately, this screws up the skins in MP, and also makes MP setup nearly unusable - fields run into eachother, text drops off the screen, buttons become inaccessible.

Is there a way this can be addressed? Is there anything I can do myself on this (like, rebuild bits of the setup gui?)

thanks

Martijn

 

[dipje]

Well, if you've got the configurator to recompile cleanly... you could always just change the fonts in the gui to a bigger one... and never touch your DPI settings.

Altough this would be a big hassle everytime you upgrade to a different MediaPortal version... and it would only make the configurator more readable... a lot of other programs would still be to small.

Maybe changing the fonts in the Windows Theme / Appearance settings would also help?

I'm afraid that handling DPI correntness would take some time, and the dev's are busy with more high priority stuff.