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| Thread ID: 34462 | 2003-06-13 20:36:00 | Dealing with a high resolution screen - help! | robo (205) | Press F1 |
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| 152394 | 2003-06-13 20:36:00 | When you buy a high resolution screen, it is nice to use it. Problem: Half the software can't handle it. How do I increase toolbar icons beyond the size of a large pinhead? I can barely see the buggers. Also, some web pages now take up half a screen. In PressF1, the text is tiny as I type this, and although the page has an advert on the right hand side the message box here would be around a quarter of the width of the screen. I've chosen large fonts in one place, and made the icons large, its controlling sizes in IE and toolbars in apps that is the mystery. Thanks robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 152395 | 2003-06-13 20:57:00 | Robo you left out the vital details... you of all people! :) What's the screen size? 17"? 19"? 21"? 48"? And what resolution have you parked it at? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 152396 | 2003-06-13 21:01:00 | You're always going to have issues like that I'd think sorry Robo.. I think the idea ia you buy a nice large screen so it can display higher res. without worring about increasing font/icon size. You could always run a Dual-Monitor setup and use the Magnifier on the second monitor? Worked for me...?!? The thing is... You have it at a higher res. right... with the idea that you can fit more onto the screen. So.. You wanna see things more.. decrease the screen res? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 152397 | 2003-06-13 21:06:00 | If you increase the resolution along with the screen size then theoretically the size of everything on the screen shouldn't change, as the physical screen size is larger to make up for the higher resolution. If you try to run at a high resolution on a 15" then yeah things are going to look small. I run the same resolution at work on the 21" as I do at home on my tiny little 15" (1024x768). I can run the 21" at much higher but one of my programs doesn't like it (A particular program that I run in Sun Solaris, which is run in a window, doesn't display colours correctly at a higher res). So I've got big icons and text on the 21" :) But if I were running it at a higher res I could have the same size text and icons as on my 15", but be able to fit so much more on the screen because of the bigger screen size. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 152398 | 2003-06-13 22:58:00 | True Colour, 1920 by 1440, on a 19 inch screen. Win XP Pro, Office XP. DPI 200% (192 DPI), large fonts, large icons. Just took it to 300% and will restart and see what happens. I need high resolution for screen captures, but not at the cost of making images too small to see. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 152399 | 2003-06-13 23:05:00 | aaargh!!!! 30% is huge fonts, very clear and easy to read but the icons on toolbars are still the same, thoroughly small. (gets out measuring tape) 2.5mm by 3mm. Is that too small? I can barely tell they are there. This is driving me nuts. I want nice clear screen captures at the highest resolution possible (using Snagit, btw). robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 152400 | 2003-06-13 23:06:00 | Oh, and one other side-effect is that the mouse (even though it is on maximum tracking speed) needs a mousepad about the size of Lake Taupo to get from one side of the screen to the other). robo. (okay, maybe not quite that big) |
robo (205) | ||
| 152401 | 2003-06-13 23:15:00 | You can always try Linux.. Its much easier to increase the Icon size ;-) AFAIK, Win32 Icons come in two flavors, 16x16 pixels, or twice that size at 32x32... Try sitting closer to the monitor :p |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 152402 | 2003-06-13 23:27:00 | Okay, I'll just write a quick port of Picture It! Digital Image Pro and the Epson Photo Styler.... | robo (205) | ||
| 152403 | 2003-06-14 00:53:00 | That's the spirit robo! Boy you catch on quick ;-) |
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