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Studio windows on displays with different scale settings

I thought I should mention this somewhere, since I doubt Studio's user interface is going to change any time soon.

I have two displays with 100% scaling and two with 125% scaling.

I generally have the Studio window in one of the displays with 125% scaling and, for example, the Studio Messages window in one of the displays with 100% scaling.

When the Messages window (or other Studio window, like the SDLToolkit window) opens in the 100% display, it often appears too large.

I fumbled around a few times until I figured out how to shrink the window.

Clicking on the window doesn't work. It just jumps away so you can't use it. Since you can't click on it, you also can't try dragging it.

But trying to change the window size by dragging on one of its edges works, and causes the window to promptly shrink to the proper size.

Just in case anyone happens to encounter the same situation and can't figure out how to use the window :-)

Apparently Studio decided to "roll its own" windows design long ago when everyone was wondering whether to adopt the Microsoft .NET framework, which probably explains why the Microsoft Word Find dialogue always appears at the right size regardless of display scaling differences.

Best regards,
Bruce Campbell
ASAP Language Services

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    Always good to see some shared tips. We recently had a problem with a new app due to this very thing so while we fixed this problem for the app we discussed the problems in Studio with the dev team. It's a very large piece of work to try and deal with every part of Studio and make sure it behaves the way it should so the approach that is being taken is that the development team make sure the areas they work on behave appropriately when different sizing is applied, and eventually will resolve this in all areas of the product.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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    Always good to see some shared tips. We recently had a problem with a new app due to this very thing so while we fixed this problem for the app we discussed the problems in Studio with the dev team. It's a very large piece of work to try and deal with every part of Studio and make sure it behaves the way it should so the approach that is being taken is that the development team make sure the areas they work on behave appropriately when different sizing is applied, and eventually will resolve this in all areas of the product.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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