blurry text on high DPI monitors (Windows)

[simonmcconnell]

Hello!

I downloaded your diode app a while ago as I was interested in what this would look like. I noticed that the text was blurry on my laptop (4k and 200% scaling) but seemed ok on the external monitor. I'm tinkering with converting my wx app to webview and notice the same thing with my app. If I zoom in, at a point it becomes crisp.

From a quick search, it looks like we need to mark the exe as DPI aware (relevant wxWidgets issue). And a WebView issue where they point to using SetProcessDpiAware.

I just wanted to flag this. It's not a showstopper for me but I want to look into it at some point.

[dominicletz]

Thanks for this report! I've checked those issues and like the idea about the manifest. We'll probably bundle the manifest file, and can do the same for the desktop bundler scripts as soon as they get released.
Found this example of a relevant manifest from msft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/setting-the-default-dpi-awareness-for-a-process

[dominicletz]

Just a small update here, I fixed that for my app in the deployment script by embedding a win32 manifest file in the shipped .exe - This is becoming part of the forthcoming win32 package installer!

[simonmcconnell]

What installer are you going for?

[dominicletz]

nsis2