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UI is not fit for 4K resolution monitors
Dec 15th, 2021 at 9:31pm
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Hi,

The Visual Micro UI is almost unusable in certain places, with text being far too small to read, and text fields/buttons overlapping each other. I brought this up in 2016 and the problem was that I was using a 4K monitor. I've since replaced that old laptop with another one that's 4K, and the issue seems to remain.

I've attached screenshots. 

Is there a workaround for this?
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Re: UI is not fit for 4K resolution monitors
Reply #1 - Dec 16th, 2021 at 1:37pm
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This can be avoided by disabling Visual Studio's DPI Awareness.

If you add the below registry key, and restart VS this should improve:
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\devenv.exe]
"dpiAwareness"=dword:00000000
  
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Reply #2 - Dec 16th, 2021 at 3:58pm
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Solved! Thank you. 
I didn't find a solution via Google or the forum search. Hopefully this thread finds others with the same issue.
  
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Reply #3 - Dec 26th, 2021 at 11:15pm
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OK, I tried that solution, but it is not a very good solution. The fonts on my monitor no longer have sharp edges, they are ragged and very ugly. So I do not consider this a good solution. Please, is there a better way to handle this?
I'm running Windows 11 with Visual Studio 2022
  
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Reply #4 - Mar 4th, 2022 at 4:07pm
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The latest release (22.02.18-2) should improve this situation when the DPIAwareness is ON for VS (the Default), which is available from the top of the board below:
https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=VS_ARDUINO_EXT_RELEASES
  
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