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Tiny UI text. Zooming fonts only helps a bit in the translation window itself
You can set the relevant font sizes here:
Please be aware that some changes will be effective immediately, whereas others require you to restart CafeTran.
It would be good to have to presets to select:
- Low resolution screens up to 17"
- Hi-res screens up to 30"
It would be user-friendly and help novice users to start directly with CafeTran after setup, if CafeTran would provide some easy to select screen-optimised configurations.
The optimal situation would be that CafeTran would detect the screen resolution and size itself ;). But probably, Igor has better things to do than playing around with this ;).
Restarted. No change at all to the UI font sizes - the whole interface is so small it's unusable.
There's no item under Font for the UI anyway, as far as I can tell, so how do you scale the interface?
Could you please provide a screenshot? BTW: On what kind of screen are you working?
Hi John,
Most UI elements can be adjusted under the Font menu. What CafeTran version are you using? See it in the Help > About > Product version. This year updates adjust the menu fonts to the screen resolution. A screenshot would help to see your issue.
Okay, I can see the version in your first post so only the screenshot is missing.
Computer: ASUS UX305
From what you write, Igor, it looks like the menu fonts haven't adjusted automtically on my system, or maybe incorrect screen resolution is being passed to CT.
The window titlebar font size is more or less the right size for my screen resolution.
Is there an external monitor connected with a high resolution? Do you know what the current resolution is? Please try changing the look and feel to Windows in Edit > Preferences > Appearance tab.
That would qualify as a hi-res screen?
The screen you posted, is called the Dashboard. Did you manage to get usable font sizes in the 'real' GUI?
Here's a screenshot of CafeTran running on Windows 8 on my hi-res MacBook Pro (2550 x 1600 if I'm not mistaken, on Parallels):
Dashboard:
This resembles more or less what you get with your 3200 x 1800.
GUI:
BTW: Have you enabled and screen font magnification in Win10? Perhaps that works for Java apps too?
That would qualify as a hi-res screen?
The screen you posted, is called the Dashboard. Did you manage to get usable font sizes in the 'real' GUI?
Here's a screenshot of CafeTran running on Windows 8 on my hi-res MacBook Pro (2550 x 1600 if I'm not mistaken, on Parallels):
Dashboard:
This resembles more or less what you get with your 3200 x 1800.
GUI:
BTW: Have you enabled and screen font magnification in Win10? Perhaps that works for Java apps too?
Thanks for the screenshot. The UI font size will be adjusted in the next update.
The font size of some interface elements has been increased in the update 5 here.
This is now definitely usable, but still a bit small, or am I going blind? ;)
Of course, we will all have a slightly different preference, so some kind of basic UI font zoom in/out setting down the line would be great.
For reference, the "help" in the source box of my fake project below is about the size I would prefer the larger text of the UI to be, so really not much in it.
Thanks a lot for your very prompty help!
The screenshot looks like CT on an ultra wide screen. Can you tell its current resolution?
johntaylor
UI texts are tiny (almost impossible to read)
Text in translation window is also tiny - I have to zoom to about size 35 just to read it without leaning forward.
Is there a simple way to scale the app correctly for my screen??