Sean Meighan

Welcome => Latest xLights/Nutcracker software => Topic started by: neil on December 11, 2014, 03:00:19 PM

Title: xlights bad on new laptop with UHD/4K screen
Post by: neil on December 11, 2014, 03:00:19 PM

XLights/NC does not render well on my new lenovo laptop. the boxes are out of alignment and I cannot select from the dropdowns.


I have tried to reduce the resolution but windows only seems to be good at the 4K resolution level.


I am sure this is because of the way Xlights is developed and it was not designed to be for a 4K screen. perhaps something to think about in the new 4.0 version with the rewrite.

Title: Re: xlights bad on new laptop with UHD/4K screen
Post by: sean on December 11, 2014, 03:36:48 PM

what is the screen resolution?

In 4.0 this is probably not an issue since every single panel is dock-able, float-able and sizable.

Title: Re: xlights bad on new laptop with UHD/4K screen
Post by: neil on December 11, 2014, 07:00:59 PM

the UHD display is 3840*2160

Title: Re: xlights bad on new laptop with UHD/4K screen
Post by: dkulp on December 11, 2014, 07:40:43 PM

I think if you right click on the icon for the executable and bring up the properties, there is a setting for disabling the display scaling on High DPI screens.  You might want to try that.   In know I had to do that for HLS.

In anycase,  this is likely a wxWidgets issue and I'm not expecting that we can do much about it.

Title: Re: xlights bad on new laptop with UHD/4K screen
Post by: neil on December 11, 2014, 08:51:02 PM

i checked the setting for disabling the display scaling on High DPI screens in the xlights program properties but it didnt seem to have fixed the issue.


anyway now that I am running xlights/NC on my macbook in OSX i think I will stick with that for the rest of this season.


attached of what it looks like.





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