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Microscopic Toolbar

Microscopic Toolbar

Postby Randal » 14 Jun 2016, 22:55

Forgive me, please, if I am in the wrong forum or if there is an answer elsewhere; I haven't found it yet. I just installed Skyline Free to test it out. I'm running on a Dell, Windows 10 laptop, brand new, i7, nVidia graphics with a 3840x2160 resolution. The top where it says (at least I think it does) "File Edit..." is microscopic. I don't mean tiny, I mean so small that I just had a gnat land on the monitor and it was bigger than the menu. I think the gnat could read it but it flew away before I could ask it any questions.

Anyway, I can hover the mouse over them and see the underlying menus fine. The icons in the toolbar are pretty small as well.

How do I change the settings?
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby TattieBoJangle » 15 Jun 2016, 15:51

Hi Randal and welcome :D I also run that rez on my high end rig but I don't get any problems like yourself, obv you will know having 4k yourself :D you always end up having to use desktop scaling to make anything actually readable on such a high resolution, and desktop scaling simply doesn't work for everything. Keeping your desktop at a straight 1:1 ratio leaves everything from text to icons far too small.

I don't like to pass the problem off but its more a 4k problem if anything that requires tweaking on the users side here is a good article that covers a lot that you may or may not find useful hope this helps.

https://pcmonitors.info/articles/the-4k-uhd-3840-x-2160-experience/

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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby CreativeOcclusion » 15 Jun 2016, 18:47

The top where it says (at least I think it does) "File Edit..." is microscopic. I don't mean tiny, I mean so small that I just had a gnat land on the monitor and it was bigger than the menu. I think the gnat could read it but it flew away before I could ask it any questions.

Hey Randal...Welcome to SkyLine...I got a good laugh out of your gnat story... :lol: :lol: :lol: ...The Devs are moving into a new home right now and should be back soon...Hopefully they can figure out your problem...The free version is sometimes behind the full version, so this could be the problem...It's great to have you here, and thanks for the great laugh...CO
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby Randal » 16 Jun 2016, 02:20

Thanks OC and Tattie. I was told I should have written comedy but nooooo what did I do? I became a computer programmer and now I'm addicted. I program for work, I program for entertainment. I even program during dinner. I once tried to do that in the shower with a desktop computer. Shockingly, I won't try that again. Oh I didn't get hurt, I just knocked out a grid for a few hours. Can't program without electricity.

I'll expand the desktop to 300x and see what happens.
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby CreativeOcclusion » 16 Jun 2016, 17:28

I once tried to do that in the shower with a desktop computer. Shockingly, I won't try that again.


:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby Randal » 17 Jun 2016, 01:35

I expanded everything to 300x. The menu was still tiny. My desktop image on the other hand, wow. I've never seen melons so big before. I didn't realize the grocery store even sold those! The cucumbers next to them however made me feel inadequate so I shrunk it back down.

I tried resolution, changing the menu font from 9 to 16 and a few other things and this is the one program that doesn't respond to it. I'd like to fully test it before buying. So far it looks right for what I'm doing with another package that went defunct a few years ago. I'll have to learn LUA but that's okay. I look forward to seeing what I can do with it. ;)
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby StarFire » 17 Jun 2016, 12:50

Hi and welcome to Skyline @Randal :D .
Loving your humor that should appease the Skyline goddess and bless the many quest you will embark upon ;)

We are still with out studio but as soon as it is up and running again we will look into the menu font size issue and see if it can be resolved our side, (unless you find a windows solution first.)

On the lua front we do have an alternative visual mechanics development system that uses modules and connections to get common game mechanics, but this is a very new system in Skyline and is currently being expanded, well it would be if we could get on our dev machines lol. :lol:

Any way we have a great friendly community who should be able to help you with any questions and we will be about if we can find any internet access. Currently having to use the local library :shock:

Hope you are enjoying your first Skyline experience :D
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby CreativeOcclusion » 17 Jun 2016, 18:24

I'll have to learn LUA but that's okay. I look forward to seeing what I can do with it.


Lua is easy to use...The main part I had to get used to was IF statements...

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      if(move ==  1)       then moveSpd =  moveSpeed;  end
      if(move == -1)       then moveSpd = -moveSpeed; end
      anim.playAnimation(obj, CURRENT_ANIM, 30, 1)
end


if() then end...semi-colon is optional...No curly brackets...-- for comments...it doesn't take too long to get the hang of it...
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby Randal » 17 Jun 2016, 23:00

That does look easy. I'll see if I can find the script editor and play around with it. Thanks OC for everything!

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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby CreativeOcclusion » 18 Jun 2016, 19:13

This section of the documentation is the best place to start...Use the drop downs on the left side of page and study the classes...

http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/API/Lua/html/index.html
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Re: Microscopic Toolbar

Postby SolarPortal » 20 Jun 2016, 13:43

Hello and welcome to the skyline community Randal :D

You can locate the script editor either from the main menu > Editors > Script editor or from the the main toolbar which looks like a white piece of scroll paper.

Other methods of opening the script editor are on attached scripts on scene entities where you can press the edit button on a microscript action or external script attachment.

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