Retina display issues

Serengeti (Rhino 8 BETA)
1

Just installed v6 wip on a MacBook Pro with Retina 2880 x 1800 display (Win 8.1, Boot Camp, GeForce GT 750M, OpenGL page). I’m seeing the following issues:

  1. Status bar is squeezed to the left (image) - this is painful
  2. Osnap tooltips are displayed with a strange negative square (image above), unless you activate cursor tooltips under modeling aids (not a big deal then)
  3. Splash screen (see templates and news)
2

I’ve heard rumors that Windows 10 is supposed to handle high resolution screens better.
We won’t know until it happens.

3

err… I think we already know. Many of these bugs are our own fault that we need to fix :smile:

4

We do? That’s news to me, but that’s probably better since we can effect a change at some point.

5

Yes, there were also some rumors v6 will handle high res. better :wink:
This is generally very good display experience. Does anyone else with high res. see the status bar issues? That is the only one problem I have encountered so far that is really disturbing at work.

6

You didn’t get the memo? :slight_smile: Just kidding.

There are a lot of high resolution issues that I’ve already fixed in V6 (toolbar buttons can actually be seen without magnifying glasses now, viewport tabs aren’t obscenely huge…), but it is a big project in general. All of these issues are things that we have control over and can fix without Windows attempting to guess the right answer.

7

I can see no improvement with the 3 issues I reported above. Squeezed status bar is still very painful. Are these registered as bugs?

8

Here is our list of “DPI aware” issues. Many are still not fixed yet

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issues?q=project%3A+RH+Subsystem%3A+{DPI+Aware}

9

With a System Registry key addition and copying a manifest file to the folder where 64-bit Rhino V5 lives, you can fix the small icon problem on high resolution monitors.

The details are in this new FAQ support document:
http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/5/video/highres/toolbars_and_text_too_small_in_64-bit_rhino_5_on_high_resolution_screen

This also fixes the same issue for Grasshopper in 64-bit V5

10

I can see all the 3 issues I have reported (top of the thread) are fixed now. Thanks!