On 4k devices the default pixel size leads to tiny OpenGL drawing
that is hardly usable without doubling the DPI. The retina system
on OSX aims to alleviate this problem by introducing a general 2x
pixel size.
No equivalent feature exists on other platforms so far. However,
to emulate the effect this patch introduces a "virtual" pixel size
factor for OpenGL drawing.
Note that the user currently has to enable this manually by selecting
the "Virtual Pixel Mode" in the user preferences (defaults to native).
All windows of a Blender instance share the same virtual pixel size as well.
It may be possible to handle this on a per-window basis and automate
the selection somewhat (if enabled by the user), so working with
multiple screens becomes more convenient, but technical limitations
make this a bit difficult (on X11 with nvidia drivers the actual screen size
is not reported correctly).
Reviewers: ton, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D669
Yep, at last it's here!
There are a few minor issues remaining but development can go on in
master after discussion at blender institute.
For full list of features see:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/Painting
Thanks to Sergey and Campbell for the extensive review and to the
countless artists that have given their input and reported issues during
development.
Previously this only worked for some datablocks relevant to rendering, now it
can be used to detect if any type of datablock was added or removed (but not
yet to detect if it was modified, we need many more depsgraph tags for that).
Most of the changes are some function parameter changes, the important parts
are the DAG_id_type_tag calls.
Reviewed By: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D195
and restore of window setups with multiple monitors, but they are also causing
regressions, in particular issues with Blender overlapping the taskbar and the
user preferences opening wrong. We decided to revert to the old behavior for
the release.
See bug #36707 for the full explanation.
This allows to open windows stretched over monitors. Saving
stretched layouts open correctly as well.
Renamed screensize_all to desktopsize to better convey meaning.
New OSX "Life resize" was also being called during opening of windows - when things are
not initialized yet. Crashed on opening full-screen window (which is animated in OSX).
- Removed grid-snapping for area coordinates on scaling windows.
That caused the areas to shrink or expand, and eventually corrupt screen layouts.
- Added simple but efficient life resize for OSX. I need to know why this is so much
code for Windows... I suggest Windows to just copy same method; dispatch the queue,
and just let the event system draw.
window, the game would stop drawing in the first and mess up the OpenGL state of
the second.
Also fixes glPushAttrib/glPopAttrib getting out of sync in some cases.
Now the active monitor size is used on startup.
Currently the cursor position is checked for intersection with the monitor bounds to find the active screen.
This returns the desktop size, not just the size of the active monitor, useful since this constrains the mouse and we dont have to detect the active monitor (which isn't so straightforward with xlib).
carbon/cocoa are TODO, they still use getMainDisplayDimensions().
Minimal change to stop blender window opening across all monitors.
Workaround the problem by starting maximized, and using sane defaults for non maximized window.
I checked on a few different solutions to this, Using Xinerama works OK, but with different size monitors
and not knowing which one the window-manager will pick in advance - this can be wrong too.
Now instead of opening with the screen size, just start maximized and use a default size for the non-maximized window (clamped by the screen size).
This isn't perfect since you could have 2x monitors at 1024x768, open blender, un-maximize - and blender window would cross over into the second monitor.
OK - so you have this nice crisp screen, and still you want to add extra
monitors to the laptop! That means Blender should switch back and forth to HiDPI
modes, when you move a window to another monitor.
This code makes the pixelsize scale factor a window property, and handles
an event when a window moves to another monitor. It then changes the
native pixelsize nicely and refreshes entire UI.
You can also have one Blender window on high, and other on low resolution.
Stretching a Blender window from 1 monitor to the other works too, but that
is Apple magic handling it.
(2.65a and older)
Case: ALT+CTRL+U (user prefs) made mousewheel change button values in inactive
window.
On opening 2nd window, or de-activating a window, the modifier
state was kept for that window. That meant that mouse-over in a window was using
the old modifier - for example for scrollwheel it would change values
in buttons.
