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Menu options not appearing next to menu on smaller screen #1896

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GammaVel opened this issue Sep 14, 2023 · 4 comments
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Menu options not appearing next to menu on smaller screen #1896

GammaVel opened this issue Sep 14, 2023 · 4 comments
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@GammaVel
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GammaVel commented Sep 14, 2023

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I have noticed for a while that when I run Constellation from my laptop which is set to 1920x1200 (which is the recommended setting for my laptop) that menu items and hover text can appear at a distance from the original item. This is ok if you are fairly familiar with the application but a bit confusing if you are new. I have attached some examples of this happening below.
I also have an issue with the text appearing very small, when using the default settings which was raised in #1062 (it looks like nothing can be done with the version of netbeans for this).

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Data Access View > seeking to Adjust the Remove By for the Remove note utility:
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Here I am trying to change the date time formatter when importing a CSV to construct a graph:
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Here I am merging nodes:
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Here the hover text is far away from the actual graph that it belongs to on the welcome page:
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This is when creating a new note, the buttons are not shown unless I make the box bigger:
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Expected behaviour: Any menu items appear next to where the functionality is.

**Actual behaviour:**The menu items appear further away and not related to the menu

**Reproduces how often:**100% - this is not an issue on my wide screen monitor.

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Small font was previously raised

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I'm wondering if the issue here is windows scaling. Ive seen similar issues in .NET applications where things line up nicely at 100% scale, but changing to other values resutls in all sort of issues.

I tried the CSV import example above at 100% scal and it looked fine, but at 150% scale the menu was displayed roughly 2/3 as low as I expected it.

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GammaVel commented Nov 8, 2023

Good point @serpens24, I thought I was running at 100% but when I checked Windows was set to 125% which is the recommended setting. When I changed it to 100% it immediately fixed my issue of the menus not appearing close enough to the menu that they relate to.

@antares1470 antares1470 added bug Something isn't working ux Things related to the user experience labels Nov 20, 2023
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This issue is stale because it has been open for 6 months with no activity. Consider reviewing and taking an action on this issue.

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 6 months with no activity. Consider reviewing and taking an action on this issue.

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