When Microstation was installed on my Surface Pro 4, the button and text were too small to read easily. I adjusted the button and text size through the menu Workspace>Preferences>Look and Feel>Tool Size (medium), Workspace>Preferences>Look and Feel>Dialog Font (Sans Serif 9). Now, the text is a size that I can read, but the taskbar doesn't show the whole height of the text. This is what it looks like now.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Timothy Hickman
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Hi Tim,
I am using a dual display. My main screen is the Surface Pro. Resolution is 2736x1824. The screen size is about 13". The second display a monitor with resolution 1920x1080. Both screenshots were taken from the Surface display.
Here's a screenshot of what the workspace looks like with the Large icon reference. The icons along the top became bigger, but the icons in the taskbar seem to be the same size. I closed and reopened the program after changing the preference.
The taskbar issue does not change when I move window between monitors. I also tried changing my main display to the large monitor and restarting the program, but it didn't have any effect on the taskbar.
Please try some of the tips in the following wiki:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/31077.user-interface-tips-for-high-resolution-monitors
Most likely this is being caused by display scaling in windows.
Answer Verified By: Sarah Wenzel
Success! David was right that automatic scaling was the problem, although I didn't follow the provided instructions step by step.
My Microstation properties looked a little different:
By playing around, I found that Scaling performed by system seemed to work the best.
Then I made the icon, text, and dialog text smaller, rather than larger.
This is how it looks on both the large and small monitor now. The only potential problem is now pop-up prompts from other programs (Snipping Tool) suddenly have enormous text. Maybe its related to the change I made here...will investigate.
Thank you everyone for all your help!