I’ve just changed over to using a touchscreen for live use. This is 1920x1080, and generally just about ok for gigging. However the VU meter and MIDI ports lights (next to the panic icon) disappear at this resolution.
Going to 90% scaling fixes that, but the rest of the UI is then just too small.
One solution could be to make some toolbar icons optional e.g. I personally never use the live mode, pointer lock, loop mode, master transport and some others. Another solution could be to shrink the size of the song name display.
To answer your question, I should have mentioned I run at 150% scaling, in part as bigger things as easier to hit on a touch screen (especially live), but also as my eyesight is getting worse with age.
A quick test shows 125% does display the full toolbar, and that would be just-about fine for day-to-day non-Cantabile use.
Hi @brad, did a quick test with the build, this fixes my problem, but the spacing doesn’t seem to be optimal i.e. a large space left where the metronome setting was, and the power button is cut off to the right. Going away this weekend, so won’t have time to share a screenshot for a few days.
Found some time this morning :). The attached is from a 1920x1200 machine @ 150% scaling. Loop mode and master transport are turned off. The power-button is cut off on the screen itself (i.e. the screen shot is full width).
And just seen “master transport” is misspelled in the right-click menu.
While you are looking at gui display preferences, on the view menu item the metronome, timeline and onscreen keyboard entries don’t seem to toggle. The menu item will make them appear but not disappear. For example, the metronome requires Ctl-Shift-M to remove.
This is by design so that you can use the command to move focus to that panel when it’s already visible. To hide the panel, move focus to it and press Shift+Escape, or choose View → Hide Active Panel/Bar.
If you really want to be able to toggle you can assign shortcut keys to the toggle version of the command in Tools → Options → Hot Keys (but this won’t change the behaviour of the menu command).
The layout issues are because the center status panel is always centered and anything to the left/right has to fit in the available space. But… I’ll see if I can improve things (when I get back from a couple of weeks travel)
