Display scaling error when resizing window

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On Windows 11, the RoasTime application has a strange error which is easily reproducible.

Open the application and the scaling looks like this…

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Then maximize the window and it changes to this…

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It stays at the latter setting regardless what I do until the next restart.

I would much prefer the latter scaling factor, since the graphs are much more readable that way, but even if I start the application maximized, it requires a roundtrip to manual maximization to rescale.

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Thanks for reaching out, we will have a look at this.

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Just for info; after the latest update it still does this. Now I can just do it in three different UI scalings :wink:, which by the way is a very welcome addition to the program.

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The program still does this on Windows. There are two similar but separate behaviours:

  1. If you maximise the main window in a list view, it will scale down the UI and keep that scale when you restore the window. The actual scaling factor is difficult to ascertain, but somewhere around 75% of the opening scale. The scale is kept when you switch views.
  2. If you maximise the main window in a graph view, it will scale down the UI by 50% or so and keep that scale when restored and across views.

This all happens regardless what the UI scaling settings are in the config menu, and opening the application maximised (as a property on the shortcut) also does nothing.

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By the way. I hadn’t noticed that there was an out-of-band update. I just updated to 4.10.3 and it still shows this behaviour.

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What is your monitor resolution and your windows display scaling?
You can find this under System->Display->Scale.

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Four different computers, and they are…

1 @ 1920x1280 - 175%
2 @ 1920x1280 - 100%
1 @ 2560x1440 - 125%

They all show the same behaviour. The same if I reset to default values, as well as a test with RDP at an obscure resolution.

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Can you try to set it to English and see if this still happens?

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Yes, it happens in English as well. Does it not replicate?

This is what I do:

  1. Open RoasTime in a normal Window, i.e., not maximised
  2. Click maximise
  3. It scales down to 83%

Or

  1. Open RoasTime in a normal Window, i.e., not maximised
  2. Click the Active tab
  3. Click maximise
  4. It scales down to 53%

I have tried it on a whole array of PCs with Windows 10 and 11, and it does the same thing on all computers. In all fairness, I haven’t tried on Mac or Linux yet.

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It should be fixed with the incoming Client version update.
Please let us know if you still have problems when your Client version is more than v1.160.2

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The client version when doing the tests shown to fail were v1.162.3.

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Hey @thniels

I assume you used the browser zoom shortcut with Ctrl + ‘-’, and Ctrl + Shift + ‘+’

Unfortunately, we didn’t share the Zoom value across each view, which is why it fluctuates when you change view and resize the window

You can fix it by pressing Ctrl + ‘0’ on every view of Roastime to reset the browser zoom level and using only UI Size zoom, before we support Zoom with the shortcut in the future

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No, I don’t use zoom. This happens every time on every PC I have ever tried it on, out of the box. Maximise the application and then restore…

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The UI settings [in RoasTime] have no influence on this behaviour.

I can setup a brand new computer, install Windows 10 or Windows 11 on it and leave system settings at default, install RoasTime, and have it do this 100% repeatably. Which, incidentally, was exactly what I did for one of the Windows 10 tests I reported on in a previous reply.

I have recorded a video of exactly how to replicate this. It happens regardless of which tab you are in.