Suggestion - Better accessibility (bigger things)

ColdHardDrewth wrote on 2/22/2018, 5:06 AM

We should have an option to make the icons on the toolbars bigger. Especially for those of with huge monitors or bad eyes or both. Scaling / dealing with windows settings is not a good thing and i can see how easy it would be to just have an option for "bigger" buttons in the options.

Might also be nice if there was a way to have a thicker cursor to grab on the timeline.

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 2/22/2018, 10:24 AM

CHD, welcome to the dark side.

AVsupport wrote on 2/22/2018, 6:50 PM

Agreed, display scaling on a 4K monitor with Vegas looks pretty baad.

What works for me best on my 28" 4K screen is to 'Disable display scaling by > Application', whilst having Scaling set to 175%.

I have some other apps that 'prefer' 200%...

This gives me readable text and small-ish but OK icons even though a little fuzzy..but then again, I got lazer-eyezzz..I guess its a matter of trying or waiting for another useful update..

ColdHardDrewth wrote on 2/23/2018, 3:31 AM

Thanks AV, I'll experiment. It's great to be part of the Vegas Pro fam now because I was able to remove all the buttons I dont' use so I don't keep clicking the wrongs things like I used to on Movie Studio. :) Yay 4k monitors and bad eyes!

rraud wrote on 2/23/2018, 10:39 AM

I had this same issue using a high-res monitor w/ Sound Forge Pro 11 and SF Pro 12 (beta). The toolbar icons were smaller than pin heads. My Magix beta test contact, addressed this and states that future releases of SF Pro 12, will not have this issue. Maybe a similar code tweak can be applied to VP.

As with Sound Forge, earlier versions do not have this issue and neither does VP-9. FWIW, I don't know if this will work with Vegas Pro, but for SF, I played around with the compatibility settings in Win 10 and came up with this setting which enlarged the toolbar icons.

- Right-click Sound Forge Pro shortcut or .ex and select "Properties> Compatibility" Under Settings, check-mark the box for "Override high DPI scaling behavior" and select "Scaling performed by: System (Enhanced)> Click Apply and SF Pro should run with more comfortably sized icons.

VEGASDerek wrote on 2/23/2018, 11:26 AM

For what it's worth, by default, VEGAS 14 and 15 run automatically using the System high dpi scaling by default (in Windows 10). This does result in an interface with the "fuzzy" graphics, but the application should scale appropriately to what your Windows settings are for scaling.

Windows 7 works differently in high dpi situations. We have worked to make the Vegas look decent for Windows 7, but in general, if you using high dpi scaling for your monitor, you should be using Windows 10.

As time goes on and we continue to rework the graphical user interface, we are adding better application support for high dpi displays so we do not have to rely on Windows to do that scaling.