Button-bar icon size specefied for a resolution

[msrox]

My monitors at home and work have different resolutions. I set the icon size for the button bar of TC when I am at home. When I get to work, the icon size are very small as the resolution of my monitor at work is much higher. Then I have to set the size again and and again when I get home!

Is there anyway to include the size of the buttion bar specifically for a resolution in wincmd.ini similar to other parameters like font size?

[ghisler(Author)]

Try removing the icon size of the buttons from wincmd.ini, then TC should use a reasonable size in both cases.

[msrox]

Try removing the icon size of the buttons from wincmd.ini, then TC should use a reasonable size in both cases.

Thanks for your reply!

What is the command for button size in wincmd.ini?

[petermad]

What is the command for button size in wincmd.ini?

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[Buttonbar]
Buttonheight=

And you also have to deselect Small icons:

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[Buttonbar]
SmallIcons=0

Note, that each time you change the button bar via the "Change button bar" dialog (Menu: Configuration -> Button Bar...) you have to manually reset the Buttonheight= parameter in wincmd.ini

[Lefteous]

The proposed solution doesn't work for me. I get tiny 16px icons here.

[petermad]

I get 24 pixels buttons with 24 pixel icons on a 1920x1200, a 1280x1024 and a 1366x768 screen.

If I use SmallIcons=1 (and Buttonheight= , and SmallIconSize= ) then I get 16 pixel icons on 24 pixel buttons.

Wonder what resolution will make buttons and icons bigger?

[Lefteous]

2petermad
Well it's not a surprise you get 24px icons when using the setting 'scale icons to button size'*. Of course I'm not using this option - this would look horrible.

* Also known as Smallicons=0

Wonder what resolution will make buttons and icons bigger?

I guess the resolution doesn't make a difference but the global DPI setting.

[petermad]

The 16 pixel icons is by design

Help:

Small icons If checked, the icons are shown in 16x16 size, otherwise they are resized to the given size.

[Lefteous]

Well all we learn from this quote is that this help page needs an update.

[msrox]

What is the command for button size in wincmd.ini?

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[Buttonbar]
Buttonheight=

And you also have to deselect Small icons:

Code: Select all

[Buttonbar]
SmallIcons=0

Note, that each time you change the button bar via the "Change button bar" dialog (Menu: Configuration -> Button Bar...) you have to manually reset the Buttonheight= parameter in wincmd.ini

Great, this works for me!

Just wondering if there is anyway to include the exact size of the buttion for each resolution?

Thanks

[petermad]

2msrox
On your high-res monitor - after you have set Buttonheight= and restarted TC, can you tell me what icon-size TC suggests when you open the "Change button bar" dialog - is it a higher number than 24? And if the number is higher, then what resolution do you have on that high-res monitor?

[ghisler(Author)]

Currently TC uses these presets:

If the DPI value is higher than 144 ( 96+48 ), then it uses
button default size: 48
small icon size: 32
otherwise
button default size: 24
small icon size: 16

[msrox]

2msrox
On your high-res monitor - after you have set Buttonheight= and restarted TC, can you tell me what icon-size TC suggests when you open the "Change button bar" dialog - is it a higher number than 24? And if the number is higher, then what resolution do you have on that high-res monitor?

It is using size 48. Here are the resolutiosn that I am dealinig with now:

Home: 1920 X 1080
Work: 3840 X 2160

Any solution?

[msrox]

Currently TC uses these presets:

If the DPI value is higher than 144 ( 96+48 ), then it uses
button default size: 48
small icon size: 32
otherwise
button default size: 24
small icon size: 16

So there is no way to specify the exact value in resolution section of wincmd.ini?

[ghisler(Author)]

No, currently not. And it would be a bad idea to add that now, we are already at RC5...