Menu Font Size

[fastbike]

Hi

I'm using version 3.25.2.0 running on Ubuntu 18.10.

My problem is that the menu fonts are extremely small. I can use QCAD on my laptop screen (13") but if I move the QCAD session to the 30" attached monitor the menu fonts are unreadable.

How do I change the font size ? Screen shots attached below

Thanks

David

Screen shot from 13" laptop screen

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Screen shot from 30" monitor

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[fastbike]

I've just been poking around the install directory and found the file opt/qcad-3.25.2-pro-linux-x86_64/qcad

This file contains the lines

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# breaks on some systems:
# disable if QCAD renders too large
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DIR" "$binary" "$@"

If I comment it out, QCAD won't start. If I increase it to 2 there is no difference. If I set it to 0 then the menu font is fine but the toolbars are unusably small.

Am I looking in the right place to fix the problem ?

[fastbike]

and changing it to

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QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DIR" "$binary" "$@"

Makes the UI scale OK on the large external screen but the menu small (and largely non functional i.e. menu can be clicked but does not show the child items on some menus, others have huge amounts of blank space before sub items etc)

Am I on the right track ?

[fastbike]

Changing it to

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QT_FONT_DPI=96 QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DIR" "$binary" "$@"

Fixes the UI problems (all the widgets appear at the right size), and the menu fonts can be read but only a few of the menu items contain sub items when clicked.

So still looking for a solution here.

[petevick]

You can change the menu font size at Edit>Application Preferences>Widgets>Menu Bar. You'll get a message saying you have to restart, but I've found that's not necessary.

[Husky]

I can use QCAD on my laptop screen (13") but if I move the QCAD session to the 30" attached monitor the menu fonts are unreadable.

What's about scaling the User Interface?

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Used scale factor = 1

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Used scale factor = 2

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[bob93]

You can change the menu font size at Edit>Application Preferences>Widgets>Menu Bar. You'll get a message saying you have to restart, but I've found that's not necessary.

Can you not do this for the tool matrix?
Also, can you change the font type for the menu bar / tool matrix?

Thanks

[petevick]

You can change the menu font size at Edit>Application Preferences>Widgets>Menu Bar. You'll get a message saying you have to restart, but I've found that's not necessary.

Can you not do this for the tool matrix?
Also, can you change the font type for the menu bar / tool matrix?

Thanks

No, not using Qcad settings, but you can by using my Qcad Theme Designer - https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... 493#p40493 - enable Font Overrides, the menu bar and items are on Fonts 1 tab and Tool Matrix is on Fonts 2 tab.

[bob93]

No, not using Qcad settings, but you can by using my Qcad Theme Designer - https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... 493#p40493 - enable Font Overrides, the menu bar and items are on Fonts 1 tab and Tool Matrix is on Fonts 2 tab.

Hi, I tried theme designer today, enabled font override and checked BOLD everywhere in all tabs, but the tool matrix item names still remain the same, e.g. they are not bold. Are these item's font properties unchangable?
https://postimg.cc/wy8mmQTS

[petevick]

Hi, I tried theme designer today, enabled font override and checked BOLD everywhere in all tabs, but the tool matrix item names still remain the same, e.g. they are not bold. Are these item's font properties unchangable?
https://postimg.cc/wy8mmQTS

Are you sure that you have the Bold check box ticked for Tool Matrix on the Fonts 2 tab.....

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....as it definitely works.....

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[bob93]

Are you sure that you have the Bold check box ticked for Tool Matrix on the Fonts 2 tab.....

Absolutely. Notice that my tool matrix is set to list view. The category names such as Point did change to bold, but the item names such as Single Point PO didn't change to bold

[petevick]

Absolutely. Notice that my tool matrix is set to list view. The category names such as Point did change to bold, but the item names such as Single Point PO didn't change to bold

I'm sorry, I misread your post, I was unable to find a way to change the items in the Tool Matrix.

[petevick]

@bob93 - I've finally found out how to change the Tool matrix list view item text (they are actually tool buttons). You can add the following to blank line 436 in your stylesheet.css file (make sure no extra lines are added)....

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QTreeView#ToolMatrix QToolButton {font-size: 10pt; font-weight: Bold; font-style: Normal;

You can change the font height and style to suit yourself, font-weight can be Normal or Bold, font-style can be Normal or Italic.

[petevick]

This is now included in the latest version of Qcad Theme Designer - https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... =15#p42958

[bob93]

You can add the following to blank line 436 in your stylesheet.css file (make sure no extra lines are added)....

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QTreeView#ToolMatrix QToolButton {font-size: 10pt; font-weight: Bold; font-style: Normal;

You can change the font height and style to suit yourself, font-weight can be Normal or Bold, font-style can be Normal or Italic.

I only now see this, but I don't quite understand. Line 436 of my stylesheet.css file is not empty. This is what the file says from line 434:

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QScrollBar::sub-line:horizontal
{
    width: 18px;
    subcontrol-position: left;
    subcontrol-origin: margin;
}

Can you give me another reference to find the part where I must place the code you gave?