Re: [lmi] [PATCH] Don't hard code explicit wxDatePickerCtrl size

[Greg Chicares]

On 01/26/2015 06:18 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
>  Of course, there are still a lot of _programs_ that don't support high DPI
> screens correctly and hard coding values in pixels is probably the most
> common bug to blame for this (the next one being the absence of high
> resolution icons and other artwork versions). And I'd just like to remove
> lmi from their list...

Now I've built lmi natively for gnu/linux, and set my DPI to 192...and
indeed I see the problem you mentioned. Using 'skin.xrc', on the "Inforce"
tab, numeric fields are only wide enough to display "1234", and date fields
show "01/" and half of a "2".

Unfortunately, I can't find a way to rescale it--these environment variables
seem to have no effect:

/opt/lmi/build[0]$GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/lmi/local/lib ./lmi_wx --ash_nazg
/opt/lmi/build[0]$GDK_SCALE=1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/lmi/local/lib 
./lmi_wx --ash_nazg

I even tried (again, with no effect):

/opt/lmi/build[0]$GDK_SCALE=2 GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/lmi/local/lib ./lmi_wx --ash_nazg
/opt/lmi/build[0]$GDK_SCALE=1 GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/lmi/local/lib ./lmi_wx --ash_nazg

The toolbar icons are tiny, but they're the same size as gedit's.
But the fonts are sharp, clear, and beautiful.