Re: No high resolution support in Windows

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: vladnc(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No high resolution support in Windows
Date: 2014-10-01 11:44:00
Message-ID: CAECtzeVtyQb7j+TJ5j0buqaXRdzoAe6RiYZtZ0GuB+TUUKxSSg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Le 26 sept. 2014 16:33, <vladnc(at)gmail(dot)com> a écrit :
>
> pgAdmin Version: 1.18.1
>
> OS: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600] (8.1 Pro 64 bit)
>
> 1. Use Control Panel\Appearance and Personalisation\Display to set a high
dpi:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/WQJmlWe.png
>
> 2. Logout/login again to make sure the changes are fully applied.
>
> 3. Open pgAdmin
>
> Result - pgAdmin is very blury, because it doesn’t support high DPIs and
is up-scaled by Windows:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/0L8l3Yh.png
>
> http://i.imgur.com/fBV09X5.png
>
> Disabling scaling for the application resulted in even worse behavior,
like overlapping UI elements, because some of them were resized and some
not.
>

Well, yeah, PgAdmin is not fully compatible with high DPI display. We need
to provide icons with better resolution. And we need a fully compatible
wxwidgets library. As far as I can tell, it isn't, at least on windows. Mac
os x retinas displays seem to work fine though.

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