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How to create a high quality icon for my Windows application?

If you are running Windows with a higher DPI setting you will notice that most application icons on the desktop look terrible. Even some high profile application icons such as Google Chrome look terrible while Firefox, Skype and MS Office icons look…
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How to use jmeter ui on ultra high resolution display

The jmeter UI on windows 8 with a 3200X1800 Lenovo Laptop is unusable. Fonts on the far left pane are toooo small and on the right side the line spacing is too small for the fonts. If I change my resolution to 1920X1080, it has no effect. tried…
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Supporting DPI and Default Font Changes

So I'm trying to figure out how the Form's AutoScaleMode property can possibly help to support a system with a font or DPI that is different from my work development machine. From the SDK: AutoScaleMode Enumeration public enum AutoScaleMode None …
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How to fix scaling of a Java-based application on a high DPI display in Linux?

I just switched to Java 11 (AdoptOpenJDK) so that my Java Swing application looks OK on high DPI displays at different system scaling settings. It works OK on Windows. Regardless of the scaling value configured on the system, Java automatically…
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How to get sharp UI on high dpi with Qt 5.6?

I am developing on a 4k monitor and its a pain... Finally I managed to set up QtDesigner and then ecountered this issue: When you use QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 and compile an app with radiobutton and other basic widgets, it looks scaled on a 4k…
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How do I get the WVGA Android browser to stop scaling my images?

I'm designing an HTML page for display in Android browsers. Consider this simple example page: Simple!

It looks just fine on the…
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Automatic rescaling of an application on high-dpi Windows platform?

I'm writing a Qt application that needs to run on high-dpi Windows (192dpi instead of 96dpi). Unfortunately the Qt framework does not have support for high-dpi yet (at least on Windows), so my application and all its elements looks half the size it…
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How can I set the dpiAware property in a Windows application manifest to "per monitor" in Visual Studio?

I need to be able to set the dpiAware property in the manifest of my application to "per monitor". The available choices in the properties are just to enable or disable DPI awareness. Neither of these settings works for me. I can get the behavior…
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DPI Awareness - Unaware in one Release, System Aware in the Other

So we have this really odd issue. Our application is a C#/WinForms app. In our 6.0 release, our application is not DPI aware. In our 6.1 release it has suddenly become DPI aware. In the 6.0 release, if you run it in high DPI, it uses Windows bitmap…
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Troubleshooting DPI Virtualization and DPI-aware applications, in Windows Vista and Windows 7

I have a problem where an application (written in Delphi) is behaving properly at default 96 DPI settings on all systems, but is behaving inconsistently at the "150% text size" (internally 144 dpi) setting, on different systems. It seems that on…
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HiDPI in IntelliJ 13.1, how to use it? what is it good for?

I've just seen that there is HiDPI support for Windows in IDEA 13.1 : Support Windows/Linux HiDPI devices via -Dis.hidpi=true What does this mean exactly ? How can I enable it ? Where should I set this flag ? I have a high resolution monitor and…
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Java Swing app looks tiny on high-DPI screen when it should be scaled to normal size

How can I make my Java Swing app GUI scale properly to users on high-DPI screens? See the screenshot below. At the top you can see how tiny the app looks compared to Ubuntu's file explorer icons and gedit. In the bottom left you can see roughly what…
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WinForms 4K and 1080p scaling / high DPI?

So, here is the scenario: I am trying to make all of my forms (which are Winforms) look good in 4K and 1080p also known as high-DPI or "dpi-aware". I (for the purpose of this question) have three forms: frmCompanyMasterEdit which inherits from…
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Windows: How to test UI under high-dpi?

i want to test how my application reacts to high-dpi settings. i don't just mean 120dpi. i want to test higher dpi settings, such as: 150dpi 300dpi 600dpi 1000dpi 1200dpi My development machine's video card cannot do the resolutions required to…
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How is it possible to determine the correct drawable size of a window on Windows 10? (SDL2)

I am working on an OpenGL application. I use a high-dpi screen, and the Windows GUI is scaled to 125%, to make the programs look like on a regular screen. If I create a 800*600 window using SDL2, it appears the same size as in a regular screen, but…
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