Help menus

[tloebl]

Hi,

Simple issue I'm sure...

I run Win 7  with 1360x768 monitor resolution.  When I pan the mouse over an option the help menu pops up to explain that function. Unfortunately only part of the description shows most of the time. Do I need a higher resolution monitor to display the entire text? Is the information available somewhere else?

Tom

[msmythers]

Tom,

The requirements as stated in the requirements page for PixInsight says the following:

Video Hardware

Minimum required video mode: 1024×768, 24-bit true color.
Minimum reasonable video mode: 1280×1024, 32-bit true color.
Minimum recommended video mode: 1680×1050, 32-bit true color.
Recommended performance video modes: 2560×1440 / 2560×1600, 32-bit true color.
We strongly recommend a high-end 27-inch or larger LED/LCD panel, or two panels driven by a dual-head video card. For serious image processing, working with large monitors is a real must with PixInsight.

http://www.pixinsight.com/sysreq/index.html

I went and tested this on my computer which I am running Windows 7 also. I had no problem with the mouse over help menus. I tested at my normal 1920x1080, at 1280x768 and at at 1280x768 with a high DPI for the font display. Here are the screen captures.

You might want to check and see if your display driver and monitor driver is up to date.


Mike

[tloebl]

Hi Mike,

thanks for your comprehensive response. I am using an Intel NUC pc with the latest  Intel video driver installed. Admittedly, my monitor is an older 9 x 16 aspect ratio 19" Samsung with a maximum 1320 x 768 resolution but it does have the latest driver installed. I attached a typical screen menu though some of them do show more information, they are still clipped on the bottom.

Tom

[pfile]

there are actually 2 targets for the pop-up help. one is the descriptive label and one is the UI control itself. if you can't see the whole tooltip, try mousing over to the label or control - one of them should work.

rob

[tloebl]

Hi Rob,

if you mean, for example, using the HDR Multiscale Transform, I put the cursor on  "Number of Layers" and then on the actual num,ber (default of 6), I have the same result on both...partial text. 

Tom

[tloebl]

The second frame didn't make it...

[pfile]

bummer, this used to work. i guess maybe there is some issue with your video driver and/or PI? i am running macosx 10.8 and i tried this just now - turns out the tooltips are visible for me either way... but they used to be broken.

rob