Flowchart Icons Ribbon Display on desktop

[canary_wharfe]

I like the new screen real estate economy of the horizontal ribbon display at the top of the screen where the VIEW menu controls the ribbon contents but I also miss having quick access to the flowchart icons which used to be permanently positioned vertically down the left side of the screen on earlier versions of Flowcode. I have tried messing around with undocking but I still can't for the life of me work out whether I can achieve what I want in the new v9 desktop?

Is it possible to recreate the left side vertical flowchart icons and the top horizontal component icons like the earlier versions? If it can be done can you please tell me the steps to do it? TIA.

[Steve-Matrix]

All the icons are available in the (new) first tab of the "project explorer" window, which can be docked on the left side.

Unfortunately, component icons are only available via the ribbon.

[canary_wharfe]

Ah ok... I missed that totally. I have now get it set up as you suggested but the reason I missed it is as a direct result of a problem that's been highlighted on the forum by other users with hi res display monitors. I've installed Flowcode 9 on a new laptop (that is really a portable desktop and far too heavy to pass as a laptop) with a screen spec of 15.6" Matte 4K IPS 60Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (3840 x 2160 pixels). The problem is getting the screen scaling to work across Flowcode IDE windows and it has been a nightmare thanks to Microsoft being right behind the curve re. hi res screens and Windows scaling. Anyway I have Flowcode 9 looking pretty good now on this display with the exception of those icons marked in the red oblong (see attached pic) AND these icons are bunched up and not easily decipherable. So I didn't realise the extreme left icon allowed you to see the flowchart icons. I think I missed this on Flowcode 8 as well.

My feeling is that you would be doing your customers a service by getting that part of the Flowcode IDE graphics adjusted for hi res displays because the market is moving towards 4K res. Apart from anything it really makes the display look a bit naff in this area. If I adjust the screen to get this graphic to display better it makes the text part of the IDE screen wrong. Using the native resolution on a 15.6" screen makes the text so small its unreadable! At best, hi res monitor users are now working with a compromise situation. Anyway just my two penny worth. It would be nice to see this fixed on a future core update if possible because Microsoft have now built in the ability in Win10 (with additional coding) for an app to be able to read the user display hardware and screen settings and make the required scaling

[Steve-Matrix]

The icons tab in project explorer is a new feature and so is not available in v8.

Like you, I have Flowcode working well on a high-DPI 4k monitor with the exception of some toolbar icons overlapping as you have highlighted (project explorer, icon lists and component properties). I am working to fix these toolbars too, but I have failed so far. Hopefully there will be a fix for this in the coming months.

However, changing Flowcode so it reads the users display settings and automatically changes the resolution might be tricky. I will look into it more, but when I looked a few weeks ago it would require considerable changes throughout the code. Windows 10 allows per-application DPI settings and so this is likely to be the solution for 4k monitors for now.

[mathias_hemberg]

I have the same problem on a DELL XPS 15 (3840 x 2160 pixels) but I have not been able to get the High DPI settings right.
Everything is crumbled up in the top left corner and barely usable. Can you share how you set it up?

[Steve-Matrix]

I'm currently using 2 monitors and the settings seem to be the default/recommended. The main one is 4k 3840x2160 150% text size, and the other is 1920x1080 100% text size. In advanced scaling, I have "fix scaling for apps" ticked.

For the FlowcodeV9.exe, nothing is ticked in the 'compatibility' tab of its windows file property settings, and "high DPI settings" are also both unticked.

The only problem I am experiencing with the current Flowcode v9 release is the toolbar images being a bit squashed in 'project explorer', 'component properties', 'icon lists' and a few other places. It is still perfectly usable, but I have fixed this and there should be a new core update released in the next week or two.

Also, Flowcode doesn't automatically resize the text when moving windows between the 2 monitors, so it does appear a bit too big on my smaller monitor. Again, this does not prevent it from being used. Unfortunately, I have not been able to fix this. But many other applications I use have significant problems with monitors of different DPI settings, so Flowcode seems to be doing ok.

I suggest you 'play' with these window settings and the file settings (right click the Flowcodev9.exe file and select 'properties' in file explorer) to see if anything improves. If you are still having problems, please post a screenshot of the Flowcode issues and let us know your windows settings.