Control Buttons are tiny on 4k Screen

[jessechahal]

I'm running this on Windows10 on a 4k Screen monitor. The control buttons are so small that I cannot tell what they do. Lucky there are tooltips that popup sometimes otherwise I would be at a complete loss. It would be nice if the controls could handle scaling based on monitor resolutions.

[Endilll]

VSP is a DPI-aware application, except that video frame is not affected. Could it be that you have about a 100% system-wide scaling? That would explain your issue.

[jessechahal]

what do you mean by DPI-aware? On 4k displays Windows10 always sets the default/recommend resolution to 4k and enables scaling based on the DPI/screen_size. The alternative is to change the resolution from 4k to something lower (which defeats the purpose of having a 4k display) or to disable scaling (makes Windows unusable). Wouldn't it make more sense to have the GUI respect these scaling settings? So far it is the only app (1st party, 3rd party, self compiled) or media player (vlc, mpv, mpc) that I have affected by Windows10 scaling. I do know there are apps for WindowsXP or earlier that can have issues with scaling or weird font rendering. Doesn't the OS control the resolution and therefore handle the part about needing to be "DPI-aware"? I agree that the video being previewed (video frame?) should stay at its native resolution in respect to the display configured resolution (ignoring scaling) but the app controls should respect OS settings.

[Endilll]

What I'm saying is that VSP respects system scaling. Not just system-wide, but even per monitor.

I don't have 4K monitor, but I have a pair of 96 PPI and 174 PPI monitors, using the latter with 150% scaling.

See how UI elements have harder time fitting onto screen on the latter screenshot? That's 150% system-wide scaling at work.
So I don't see issues on VSP side.

[Endilll]

What may be the case is that controls aren't that big to begin with, but they're even smaller in VSEdit and After Effects, for instance.