Powershell Studio - Designer Mode - All Controls have increased in size

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Isaac99
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Powershell Studio - Designer Mode - All Controls have increased in size

Post by Isaac99 »

Hi
I designed a form in Powershell Studio 2019 with about 50 controls, textboxes, datagridviews, charts, richtextboxes, panels, groupboxes, buttons etc.
I have been working on this form for a few weeks now. Powershell studio is running on a Windows 10 PC which I access via an RDP session.
The form was designed to fit nicely on 1920 x 1080 screen - the form size was 1620, 729 when I was working on it last week.
I was able to edit and run the form from designer last week on a 4K screen also to make sure it was readable and maintained its proportions and all looked good and I switched between the 1K and 4K screen at various points during the week. I deployed to Windows Form also throughout last week and the .exe loaded as expected to fit nicely on the 1K screen every time I built it to .exe.

The Windows 10 PC was restarted over the weekend.
This week when I open the form in designer, the form dimensions have changed to 2869, 1100 and all the controls have increased proportionally in designer such that now when I run it on the 1920 x 1080 screen only about half the form fits on the screen.
I can resize the form but all the controls remain inflated in size such that I would need to resize each control individually.
I have been saving it in versions so that I can roll back to last Friday / Thursday last week but each version is opening in designer hugely inflated.
The only thing I did differently was on Wednesday that I changed the Layout - Autoscale setting from Font to Dpi as it made things line up a bit nicer, but as I said, I had been working and saving the form and building to .exe without seeing any issues.
When I roll back to last Tuesdays version before I changed the layout - autoscale setting from font to dpi it opens fine but I have a few days of adding controls and code since.
Any ideas what may have happened here?
Is there a way to decrease the scale of everything by a percentage such that I can get back to where I need to be?
thanks
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Re: Powershell Studio - Designer Mode - All Controls have increased in size

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We are currently investigating this and will get back to you.
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Isaac99
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Re: Powershell Studio - Designer Mode - All Controls have increased in size

Post by Isaac99 »

thanks, looking forward to hearing your thoughts
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Re: Powershell Studio - Designer Mode - All Controls have increased in size

Post by dakotazinn »

Ive seen this issue a multitude of times.

This usually happens when you change the scaling on Windows.
Not sure why.
I usually have to keep mine at around 125% for it to be compatible with both 100% and 150% scaling on other devices.
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