katust Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 I bought a new computer yesterday and of course I had to download Paint.net. The only complication that I am having is that the toolbars are WAY too small! All of the icons are very small as well. Perhaps it's because my laptop has very high resolution? I had to resize the image in order to upload it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Yes it's an HD resolution thing, mine is the same. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Turn up the DPI in Windows. Everything will get bigger. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Control panel/All Control Panel Items/Display/Screen Resolution:For me changing from (1920 * 1080 recommended) to (1600 * 900) does make the Pdn windows/toolbars larger. Unfortunately this also makes the display very blurry for me.Personally, I'll live with the small toolbars off topic(related):I found Setting up a short cut to my mouse wheel accuracy helps when using plugin U.I.s.So I can quickly change from scrolling 10+ lines per turn when using browsers to one line for accurately positioning Pdn plugin sliders. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 You should not change the recommended size of the screen. As Rick said change the dpi scaling. Search for 'Make text and other items larger' and change the scaling from 100% to a larger value. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Ah that makes a difference! (have set it to 125% and now not blurry). Will see how I get on at that scaling, many thanks Rick and Midora. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 An increase in the display settings is what I would also recommend to make paint.net's UI easier to see. I have been using my dpi set to 125% for a long time now. Unfortunately, it sometimes effects plugin UI, for example, at the moment the shape maker plugin's UI and also zoom in/zoom out functionality is a bit off (I posted about it here). Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Yes I've tried that in the past CC4 and also found problems with custom U.I. plugins. I'm still undecided whether to keep the 125% scaling... the extra space was useful in some other programs. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 With my Dominoes game, 100% and 150% look perfect, but 125% just seems off. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Actually I've now decided to go back to 100%. Shape-maker and other custom U.I. effects do not display correctly at 125%. I can see problems ahead with more users getting higher resolution systems while others want everything to fit on physically smaller (phone/tablet) screens? Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Paint.net's UI works fine with 125%, would there be a way to have that ability for plugin's UI, such as shape maker? Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Probably as the indirect U.I. plugins seem to display correctly. How is another matter!Most of my plugins use the indirect U.I. but 'Scribble' use a custom U.I. (Null54 kindly did most of difficult part as custom was needed for xaml saving). If you have it installed, see where the g,y,q etc. are cut off at the bottom.There is a non-xaml-saving/indirect U.I. version that displays correctly (linked to on my pack thread), if users have a severe problem with it.TR did the coding for shape-maker and I believe did some HD testing with Midora and it is usable at 125% ... but the layout is very odd?Since they are both very capable programmers, I suspect the problem is not an easy one. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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