PHD2 Log Viewer very small UI display

[Claudio Nunez]

Hello,

I'm using PHD2 Log Viewer to understand my guiding performances. I'm very new to autoguiding. As it does help a lot I find it difficult to read the UI in my case I'm running Windows 10 on a surface pro 2 with a screen resolution of 3240 x 2160 and the UI is very small especially the log section and the statistics, as you can see in the attached image. 

Any help will be much appreciated

[Claudio Nunez]

Here is my log file

Thank you

[Brian Valente]

Hi Claudio

 

Have you tried increasing the size of your layout?

 

I have a 4k monitor and I can read it fine.

 

 

You can also left-click and drag up-down to increase the scale and click and use the mouse middle scroll wheel  to zoom in/out of the graph itself

 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Brian

 

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[Claudio Nunez]

Hello Brian,

The problem is not the main window with the graphs. It's specifically the log section (up left of the UI) and the statistics window (bottom right) of the UI. I do have the layout in full-screen mode and I'm still not able to see the full window. Hopefully, I'm clear enough otherwise I'll try to do a video on it as soon as I get home tonight.

Thank's

[Brian Valente]

Hi Claudio

 

Have you tried increasing the size of your layout? It’s a Windows setting for increasing layout elements size, text size, etc.

[Claudio Nunez]

Hi, Brian Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I've tried what you propose and the result is the same. The Statistics windows do not show the Peak numbers and the Log sections do not show the whole info. See image below.

Thank you

[Brian Valente]

Andy could probably better speak to that, but those window areas are fixed in size afaik.

 

So either it’s small and everything is visible (and use reading glasses?) or it’s bigger and gets cut off…. For now

[Andy Galasso]

Hi Claudio,

Thanks for pointing out the problem. I added a new item to the issue tracker, #6. It probably won't get fixed until I get a 4k monitor to test with, and I don't have any immediate plans for buying one. Pull requests are welcome if any other developer wants to work on this.

Andy

[Claudio Nunez]

Thank you, Andy,

I see that it will probably take some time to correct I'll be patient. In the meantime, I'm learning to code so maybe I'll give it a try.

Cheers

[Kim Dalmeijer]

I believe this maybe due to font scaling in Windows.

Right-click anywhere on your desktop and choose "Display Settings". Have a look at attached screenshot. This might be a workaround to get you going in the meanwhile, choose scaling of 100%.

[Claudio Nunez]

Hi Kim

Thanks for the hint. I did try it but without success it does change the font size but the panel size in PHD2 log viewer stays the same. I think it has something to do with 4k resolution. I had a similar problem with an other software related to my work and it got solved once the company released an update.

Cheers

[Kim Dalmeijer]

Hi Claudio, ¿Que tal?

What I was hoping was that by scaling the font you could at least read what was in these small panels, as an intermediate solution for now until the UI gets fixed.

[Lamar McLouth]

If you are using Windows 10, right-mouse-button on the PHD2 Log Viewer icon and bring up the Properties.

Then left-click on the Compatibility tab.  Near the bottom is the "Change high DPI settings"; left-click on that.

Then left-click the checkbox near the bottom "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:".  In the drop-down, select "System".

Finally left-click the OK button and again the OK button for the Properties window.

You can do this for any program that does not correctly handle the 4K display.

I hope it works for you.

Lamar

[Claudio Nunez]

Lamar,

That did the trick. It works perfectly my eyes will never thank you enough.

Thanks again

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