I must have hit some keys accidentally, and now my OpenSCAD looks like this:

It is basically useless.  Where is the font size hidden, please?
Exploring is very difficult at the moment.

Would it make sense to not allow font sizes over some limit?

Jon

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I found the <ctrl>-- (control minus) for the editor font, but the menu font, console font, and error log font are still wrong.  Are these things stored in a text file that I can edit?

Jon

On 9/22/2024 9:41 AM, Jon Bondy via Discuss wrote:

I must have hit some keys accidentally, and now my OpenSCAD looks like this:

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It is basically useless.  Where is the font size hidden, please?  Exploring is very difficult at the moment.

Would it make sense to not allow font sizes over some limit?

Jon

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There's only a couple of configurable font items, and I think they are
all in Preferences.

You don't say what system you're on.  On Windows the preferences are in
the Registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\OpenSCAD.  I don't know
about other platforms.

Overlapping like that means that something didn't properly handle the
font metrics.  It's unquestionably a bug.  (Whether it's a bug in
OpenSCAD or elsewhere, don't know.)

And no, pretty much there should not be any limits on font size, and
especially not this small.  Vision-impaired people need fonts that are
by normal-vision standards huge.  (Some years back when my wife was
having eye problems, she was getting about one sentence per page on her
Kindle.)  At 72 point - about ¾" capitals - I get about 60 characters
across and 17 lines tall, which seems usable.  (That's on a 43" 4K TV
used as a monitor, ~$200 from Costco.)

There are two font-size controls - the one in the preferences, and the
increase/decrease with the menu and Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus.  The
preferences one persists across application restert; the menu/Ctrl one
does not.

You might also look at system-wide font-size settings.  OpenSCAD is
known to interact poorly with those.

Thank you.  Both the Editor and Preferences show reasonable font sizes (8 and 12) but the program remains useless.  A re-start fixed things, but this probably needs to be a bug.

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On 9/22/2024 12:54 PM, Jordan Brown wrote:
There's only a couple of configurable font items, and I think they are all in Preferences.

You don't say what system you're on.  On Windows the preferences are in the Registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\OpenSCAD.  I don't know about other platforms.

Overlapping like that means that something didn't properly handle the font metrics.  It's unquestionably a bug.  (Whether it's a bug in OpenSCAD or elsewhere, don't know.)

And no, pretty much there should not be any limits on font size, and especially not this small.  Vision-impaired people need fonts that are by normal-vision standards huge.  (Some years back when my wife was having eye problems, she was getting about one sentence per page on her Kindle.)  At 72 point - about ¾" capitals - I get about 60 characters across and 17 lines tall, which seems usable.  (That's on a 43" 4K TV used as a monitor, ~$200 from Costco.)

There are two font-size controls - the one in the preferences, and the increase/decrease with the menu and Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus.  The preferences one persists across application restert; the menu/Ctrl one does not.

You might also look at system-wide font-size settings.  OpenSCAD is known to interact poorly with those.