Hello all,
I've just upgraded my laptop and now have a 4k Dell machine. I installed the Arduino IDE with no issues however upon opening, the splash screen displays the size of a postage stamp. The IDE when loaded, isn't much bigger!
I have adjusted the DPI rating within Windows although nothing seems to make it usable at all.
Has anyone else come across this issue? I see some notes online about rebuilding from source with an extra tag in the plist.info file although this looks to be OS X only?
At the moment it's completely unusable - so any help/suggestions are welcome!
It sounds like a screen resolution issue, not DPI. Is this Windows 8?
It is a Windows 8.1 machine. I will try to get a screenshot up to better illustrate the issue.
OK, The screenshot is here : [Screenshot](https://ahitchins.blob.core.windows.net/ahitchins/2015-09-29 13_31_06-Greenshot.png)
The screen resolution is 3840 x 2160. I am running the Custom Sizing thing at 250% in the above screenshot although I've dropped that back to 200% now.
I hope that helps to explain it a little more.
If anyone has any ideas, please do feel free to comment!
By default Arduino opens at a ludicrously small (if you have a decently-high-resolution screen) size. It's bad on my 1440p monitor (not even great on 1080p), and as you are seeing, it is even worse on 4K.
Solution: edit preferences.txt to open the window to a much larger default size. (Find this file by going to file->preferences, and click on the link near the bottom - close Arduino before re-saving the actual .txt file though!)
The entries you care about:
editor.window.height.default=600
editor.window.width.default=500
DPI scaling only seems to work on the font size, not the window size for Arduino on Windows (on many-though not all- other programs I use the window size scales too)
Thanks, I'll have a look at those settings. Hopefully there might be some way to set the font size to be larger too.
Thanks again for the tip!
alexhitchins:
Hopefully there might be some way to set the font size to be larger too.
Windows' DPI scaling is what I use. I never looked for that option in preferences until now. But it is there, in roughly the same area in the file:
editor.font=Monospaced,plain,12
I tested, and it works as expected, at least for font size.
madmattd:
But it is there, in roughly the same area in the file:
editor.font=Monospaced,plain,12
I tested, and it works as expected, at least for font size.
Awesome! Will give that a go. Thanks again for the help.