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Post From: Spontaneous font shrinkage - seriously weird
| [2017-11-19 18:21:05] |
| ErikT - Posts: 117 |
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This is really weird... Been running SC on the same monitors for weeks and weeks. Was working fine thru the trading day Friday. Started up SC on Sunday afternoon. First thing that was weird is the SC main window opened on a different monitor than it was closed (and save-all'd from). And this is probably relevant: The monitor I usually run it on is 2K res, but for some unknown reason it started on an adjacent 4K res monitor. No problem, I thought... Moved the window to the correct monitor (2K) where it was closed from on Friday before opening any CB's. Open my CBs and everything is in unreadably small fonts! All I can think of is that somehow SC starting on a 4K monitor (still no idea why that happened) caused it to reset internal values or something. So I went to Global Settings...Graphics Settings - Global...Fonts. All of the various categories were super-tiny in the sample window. Went through and did a "Reset to Default" on each one of them separately. That fixed MOST of the problems, but definitely not all. FOr example, I use the retrace tool a lot. The text (fib levels) is completely unreadable - looks like about a 3pt font. Resetting all the categories in the above Graphics Settings-Global fixed many of the fonts that had been mysteriously downsized, but not all of them. I have a second installation of SC on this system (for using a different data/trade service), and experienced identical problem on that one. When I first opened SC it started on a different monitor than it was closed from (but this time it was another 2K monitor - same res as it was closed from). All the fonts were tiny. Not just chart fonts, but for example the Open Chartbook dialog was barely readable because of small fonts. Once again, Global Settings...Graphics Settings-Global...Fonts showed everything in unreadably small typeface. I reset each category with "Restore Default", and that solved some but not all problems. Still many facets of the UI that are in miniature, which those font settings don't apparently influence. I checked my WIndows 10 display settings. Everything looks right - the 2K monitors are set to 100% magnification and the 4K's to 150% magnification, as they should be. No change in Windows config since I shut down SC Friday afternoon. One more really bizarre symptom in case it helps diagnose... Several charts displayed on a different monitor than they were closed on, but I also noticed they were way too big on the screen - taking up more of the monitor real estate than they were supposed to, and these did have readable fonts. But the second I clicked on the title bars of these windows to move them back to their intended monitor, the window instantly shrank to both much smaller footprint on the monitor and also much smaller fonts in the window! Seriously bizarre stuff! Any ideas? Is there a master reset everything in the system to factory defaults button I can try? I can't read any of my charts and have a heavy trading day tomorrow... Thanks in advance! Erik Is there some kind of "Global restore defaults" for the whole SC installation I should try? |