Have you had a look under "Prefs | Display Options"? It's possible to set many different display settings there.
i tried it after reading your reply. so far, those items effect the Chord sheet which is good. but the menu items and dialog boxes it didn't change fonts or size.
i added an image to show my BiaB menus text. on a large screen the items are really hard to see.
Have you tried boosting your custom setting beyond 200%?
Also, does BIAB full the entire screen when you start it?
sure i can start BiaB in full screen mode but tool bar icons & text are way too tiny to see.
Win7 seems to only go up to 200% which is fine for screen icons & text + dialog boxes. like browsers and other apps, they have options to set font/size/colors.
BiaB has that function in Prefs->Display, it but so far all i see it affects is the chord sheets, etc., but the BiaB tool bars icons & text do not scale. if they can be, i haven't found a way.
Enlarging the Windows font % causes other problems. For example, look at the lower left of the screen shot above. Check for updates every 7 days. The word "every" is obscured. Or lower right, the word "running" is truncated. I would like to run at 150% but decided not to, because of the problems in BIAB dialogs.
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)) i have a 35" x 19" 4K monitor resolution set at 3840 x 2160 via Windows(v7). text size via Windows is set to "Custom 200%" so i can read text.
Thee are 3 types of resizing that can occur in Windows control panel - display
1. Just resize the fonts only (it sounds like this is the one you've done) This will make the fonts bigger in most places in most programs. But it doesn't make other things bigger like graphical buttons. At your huge resolution, this will leave some programs looking very tiny.
2. Scale everything This is hit or miss, especially on Windows 7. It is improved on Windows 10. This allows you to scale programs and everything gets bigger. In your case you would choose something like 200%. There are YouTube videos on this... search for Windows scaling 4K.
If you are tech savvy, there are some impressive videos where they make a custom manifest file, which allows you to set certain programs to scale differently. I'd reccomend windows 10 if you are doing that though.
3. Reduce resolution of screen. You could choose 1920x1080 which is half of your current setting. That will make everything 2x bigger. It should still be very sharp, because it is a multiple of 2 to get to your native resolution.
I expect that you're noticing issues with lots of programs because the YouTube videos describe those issues with photoshop etc having tiny buttons. If so, and it was me, I would choose option 3 and reduce res to 1920x1080. If you are watching a movie or something, and want 4K, switch to the hi res for the movie.
If you want to go the scaling route I think you'd need to update to Windows 10 for best results.
Option 1 isn't going to help much with biab. The text won't get bigger in many dialogs, because there just isn't room for bigger txt and the dialogs don't get bigger. And the graphics don't get bigger, so you're left with tiny buttons.
Enlarging the Windows font % causes other problems. For example, look at the lower left of the screen shot above. Check for updates every 7 days. The word "every" is obscured. Or lower right, the word "running" is truncated. I would like to run at 150% but decided not to, because of the problems in BIAB dialogs.
)) i have a 35" x 19" 4K monitor resolution set at 3840 x 2160 via Windows(v7). text size via Windows is set to "Custom 200%" so i can read text.
Thee are 3 types of resizing that can occur in Windows control panel - display
1. Just resize the fonts only (it sounds like this is the one you've done) This will make the fonts bigger in most places in most programs. But it doesn't make other things bigger like graphical buttons. At your huge resolution, this will leave some programs looking very tiny.
2. Scale everything This is hit or miss, especially on Windows 7. It is improved on Windows 10. This allows you to scale programs and everything gets bigger. In your case you would choose something like 200%. There are YouTube videos on this... search for Windows scaling 4K.
If you are tech savvy, there are some impressive videos where they make a custom manifest file, which allows you to set certain programs to scale differently. I'd reccomend windows 10 if you are doing that though.
3. Reduce resolution of screen. You could choose 1920x1080 which is half of your current setting. That will make everything 2x bigger. It should still be very sharp, because it is a multiple of 2 to get to your native resolution.
I expect that you're noticing issues with lots of programs because the YouTube videos describe those issues with photoshop etc having tiny buttons. If so, and it was me, I would choose option 3 and reduce res to 1920x1080. If you are watching a movie or something, and want 4K, switch to the hi res for the movie.
If you want to go the scaling route I think you'd need to update to Windows 10 for best results.
Option 1 isn't going to help much with biab. The text won't get bigger in many dialogs, because there just isn't room for bigger txt and the dialogs don't get bigger. And the graphics don't get bigger, so you're left with tiny buttons.
thanks for the reply & help
(#2) that's cool. i will view some of those youtube vids and try the manifest file. would be interesting and fun to give it a try. for now, i'll stick to Win 7.
(#3) i set resolution to 2560x1440 which is ok for running BiaB. i tried 1920x1080 but preferred the 2560x1440 for me. dialog boxes are easier to read now.
not all my apps & their icons scale badly though. most all adjust toolbar & dialog fonts just fine. a few old apps won't even start in this resolution.
LibreOffice or the Reaper app, when clicking on their respective "options" or "preferences" dialog boxes, their text scales ok and is easily readable at 3840 x 2160. as are browsers and foxit pdf app.
there are issues with 4k as you pointed out. i'll get more educated on this with the youtube vids you suggested.
thanks again for your help. and thanks to the others that replied too.
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