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[#26653] Changed DPI setting in user preferences is not saved as default for new sessions

Date:
2011-03-29 00:24 Priority:
3

State:
Closed

Submitted by:
Kevin Kimber (kkimber) Assigned to:
Nathan Letwory (jesterking)

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Fixed / Closed

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Summary:
Changed DPI setting in user preferences is not saved as default for new sessions

Detailed description

If the DPI setting in the General area of the system page in User Preferences is changed from the default 72 DPI, applied and saved as default, the setting is OK for the current session, but starting a new file or a new session will return the setting to the default 72 DPI.

I would hope that this setting should be persisted as its rather annoying to have to set it for every session.

This issue has been present on Windows builds (x86 and x64) through all of the 2.5 alpha and beta releases and is still present in the RC0 r35816.

I am testing on Windows 7 on a number of different machines, so I believe its not a machine specific issue.

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Date: 2011-03-29 15:25
Sender: Ton Roosendaal
Cannot redo here (OS X). It might be a weird path conflict for windows installs though. You can test it by saving other changes with "Save as Default".

On saving default, blender prints where it saves the startup.blend, there it also reads it back on restart or 'new file'.
Will ask a windows dev to give better instructions though.

Date: 2011-03-29 15:57
Sender: Kevin Kimber
To clarify a bit more - I do "Save as Defaults", I see the startup.blend file is saved OK and other changes that I make in preferences etc. get saved, it seems to be just the DPI setting is not saved into the startup.blend somehow -OR- is overriden on start-up / new, as that always defaults back to 72 DPI regardless of the value set in preferences.

Date: 2011-03-29 16:06
Sender: Ton Roosendaal
That's very weird...

the startup.blend is a regular .blend file, with an additional chunk of data with user preferences. Only if you had startup.blend files copied to other locations and read it, the user settings change. In all other cases it sticks in memory.
Your claim that it never worked in all of 2.5 series is even more strange... never had this reported before. Needs more testing from our windows devs then!

Date: 2011-03-29 16:40
Sender: Brecht Van Lommel
Fix in svn, there was a clamp on load that didn't match RNA property min/max.

Date: 2011-03-29 16:47
Sender: Ton Roosendaal
Doh! I just tested setting it to 76, not to lower values than 72 :)

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Field	Old Value	Date	By

status_id	Open	2011-03-29 16:40	blendix
close_date	None	2011-03-29 16:40	blendix
Status	Investigate	2011-03-29 16:40	blendix
assigned_to	none	2011-03-29 15:25	ton
Status	New	2011-03-29 15:25	ton