13 replies to this topic

[spyderspyder]

Hi.

I am determined to at least become familiar with SE, but I am still finding some obstacles in the process.

Panel size.
With my favoured screen resolution of 1024 x 368, the displayed SE panel is cut off: the vertical scroll bar for a sub. file is non-existent, and buttons at lower LH are only half visible (some may be completely missing in some panels - I haven't played with it enough to determine this).

It appears OK with a resolution of 1152x864, but then nothing else on the PC is comfortably usable.


Word list.
In Options/Settings/Word lists... what, actually, is the "User word list"?
I assumed that these were words added to the user dictionary during the course of, say, a Spell Check, but I find a lot of words in there that I haven't added, including many that I would actually add to an "exclusion" list as miss-spelled (something that I would apply to the Hunspell dictionaries anyway).

Also, when removing words from this list (as I started doing) it would be enormously helpful if it didn't reset to the top of the list with every removal, but maintained the last position in the list.

Cheers,
s.

[DrJackson]

spyderspyder, on 28 August 2010 - 08:42 AM, said:

[...] 1024 x 368,[...]

I guess it is 1024 x 768.
Anyway, it is an wide screen monitor or not? Because I have a wide screen monitor and I've just cheched your reported problem, at me seems to be everything OK. (curent settings that I have is 1440 x 900, but I tryed at 1024 x 768)

About word list, yes, you have right, i guess it is more work to do with.

All the best,

doc.

[spyderspyder]

"it is an wide screen monitor or not?"
I doubt it.

On the word list thing: I just realised that the user lists (and others) are .xml docs, so they can easily be edited (and spell-checked) in any text editor, so that's not a problem.

s.

[DrJackson]

"Wide screen"

It is an explanation.

Also it can be color quality (32 bits or 16 bits), or screen refresh rate (50, 60, 70, 72, 80 Hz).
Not to forget to mention screen size

doc.

[Nikse]

Hi Guys!

About the panel size... Is it the main window? It should possible to resize it? (allthough not to the wide 1024 x 368... )

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Also, when removing words from this list (as I started doing) it would be enormously helpful if it didn't reset to the top of the list with every removal, but maintained the last position in the list.

OK, fixed in latest beta: http://www.nikse.dk/se/SEBeta.rar

[spyderspyder]

Hi, Nikse.

Thank you for the reply.
Word lists - noted. Thank you.

Panel - yes the main window, comme ca:



That's a scan of my whole screen.
It appears to be too big for its own frame (if that makes sense).

s.

[Nikse]

spyderspyder, on 28 August 2010 - 01:20 PM, said:

That's a scan of my whole screen.
It appears to be too big for its own frame (if that makes sense).

That looks more like 800x600!
You can resize it so it fits to 800x600, like this:
SE can remember the size/position of the main window.

Hope it helps

EDIT:

spyderspyder, on 28 August 2010 - 01:20 PM, said:

It appears to be too big for its own frame (if that makes sense).

Yes, that looks strange!

[spyderspyder]

"That looks more like 800x600!"

Nope - screen res. set to 1024 x 368.

I resized the scan to 800x600, befor posting - here's one as scanned:






s.

[Nikse]

spyderspyder, on 28 August 2010 - 05:04 PM, said:

"That looks more like 800x600!"

Nope - screen res. set to 1024 x 368.

I resized the scan to 800x600, befor posting - here's one as scanned:






s.

OK, thx for clarification!

Could you plz test this version (also do try to resize the window): http://www.nikse.dk/se/SEBeta.rar
(this beta version resizes via custom code and do not use .net's built-in resizing)
Is it the same or is it working?
Do you have any special settings, like "large icons", for your desktop?

[spyderspyder]

Hi.

Firstly - Yes! I have a DPI setting of 120!
I had forgotten about that, as I never usually need to change these settings, and no other program is affected.

With the 'normal' setting of 96 DPI, SE is fine - just too small to read comfortably (as is most of everything else).
Also the icons in the task bar become a bit small.



The Beta version:

The main window is now good, in "Restore down" and "Maximise" modes, with a small amount of 'drag' adjustment. But when it is restored from Minimize', the very bottom is cut off.

The 'Fix Common Errors' window remains wrongly sized, with the extreme LH bottom button mainly hidden.
(No great hardship, I suppose, as I know that it's a "Cancel" button.)



Main Window - inital size.





Main Window - after Minimize and Restore





'Fix common errors' Window





Cheers,
s.

[Nikse]

spyderspyder, on 30 August 2010 - 01:23 PM, said:

Firstly - Yes! I have a DPI setting of 120!
I had forgotten about that, as I never usually need to change these settings, and no other program is affected.

With the 'normal' setting of 96 DPI, SE is fine - just too small to read comfortably (as is most of everything else).

Thx for in info!
Spyderspyder, you need a new monitor

Running 1024x768 in 120 DPI is basically the same as running 800x600 in 96 DPI - except for SE resizing works worse
I'll try to test SE in 120 DPI.

Latest test version: http://www.nikse.dk/se/SETest.rar

[spyderspyder]

"Spyderspyder, you need a new monitor"

Yay!!! Thank you!!! And it's not even my birthday!!!
I'll send a PM with my home address for you to have it delivered!

s.

[Nikse]

spyderspyder, on 03 September 2010 - 07:59 PM, said:

"Spyderspyder, you need a new monitor"

Yay!!! Thank you!!! And it's not even my birthday!!!
I'll send a PM with my home address for you to have it delivered!

Got me!
I just like to sit with my nose pinned against my monitor, so I can decode those small dots...

Anyways, latest test version is now tested with different dpi settings - and main window can scale down to 800x600: http://www.nikse.dk/se/SETest.rar

[spyderspyder]

That's looking good!

s.