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Options on a laptop with a QHD screen? #146

Closed elbow closed 5 years ago

elbow commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Is their a way to get Cuis Smalltalk to scale up the whole screen 2x - my laptop has a QHD screen so Cuis renders very tiny.

I can change font sizes etc but the nett effect is rather weird with still microscopic window decorations etc.

Thanks, Steve

jvuletich commented 5 years ago

Hi Steve, just close and reopen any windows after the change, and decorations will be scaled too.

Cheers, Juan Vuletich

elbow commented 5 years ago

Thanks, it does help.

I see the haloes are still very tiny, and is there a way to get fonts bigger than the "Huge" size?

I had a go to make a font preference larger than "huge".

I edited Theme's class method changeFontSizes and made an option "evenHugerFonts".

Then in preferences I made that method by copying hugeFonts and making evenHugerFonts which used larger point sizes.

But there don't seem to be any sizes larger - I experimented with different point sizes and I could make them smaller but even if I set a size like 100 points it wasn't visually larger.

The mouse pointer is also still teeny - can that be sized? I couldn't figure out how "Preferences enable: #biggerCursors" works.

Regards, Steve

jvuletich commented 5 years ago

I' ve just added support for some larger sizes for fonts and GUI elements.

pull from Git Start Cuis Install New Updates in ./AdditionalFontData, expand DejaVuSansLarge.zip evaluate StrikeFont install: 'DejaVu'. Chose one of the new huge font sizes.

biggerCursors works by crudely enlarging existing 16x16 cursors, except for the NormalCursor (the arrow mouse pointer) that was redone. Building a complete set of large, nice looking cursors with alpha masks would be a nice thing.