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bug #58380: Font weirdly overlaps itself on editor screen

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 16 May 2020 11:33:53 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Yohann Vila Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 5.2.0
Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Wed 03 Jun 2020 06:29:02 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Thank you for the feedback. I am closing the bug as invalid. We can re-open it any time when you see the issue again.

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
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Mon 01 Jun 2020 12:02:58 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I can't reproduce the bug anymore. I used to work on the other screen for a while now.

FYI The default font I have is "Courier New" and everything is set to use the default in the Octave tab.

I don't remember if I have changed some font settings to solve this , so I tried to uninstall Octave, remove C:/Users/myuser/.config/octave and C:/Users/myuser/.octave_hist, tried to reposition the window on the wrong small laptop screen, and restart Octave, but still no more bug.

(and default font still Courier new)

Do you want to close this as not-reproducible until I can get more context?

Anonymous
Sun 31 May 2020 07:21:54 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It looks like the edit area (qscintilla) would compute the character positions based on a font with variable width. Which font is selected for the default style for octave files (preferences, editor tab at the bottom)?

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Sat 16 May 2020 11:33:53 PM UTC, original submission:  

I use 2 screens.

The display on the editor window looks weird when I open an existing file, it seems that some characters are overlapping.

(see first screenshot)

A way to fix this is to move the octave window to the other screen (window does some re-scaling, and the font looks right now), and then if I move the window back to its original position, the display stays correct without overlapping glitch.
(see second screenshot)

Another way that fix the issue is to go to the style menu where you can change the font, and click "apply" without changing anything. It freezes a bit (a few seconds), then display is fine.


Setup :

Windows 10

Laptop with a 1920*1080 (native) resolution, extended with another screen (same resolution, but the secondary monitor is physically quite wider, like 40% more).

Laptop is primary display, screen is secondary.

also, I noticed that on windows display settings, the "Scale and layout" option is set to 125% for the primary, whereas the secondary screen is at 100%.


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    2020-06-03 ttl StatusNeed Info Invalid / Not an Octave Bug
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