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Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:50 pm
by Magnate
Hi all, trying out 0.4.7.1 in Win10

Whatever size I have the Freeorion window, the title bar obscures the top part of the game window - the turn button, and all the game subwindow icons (research, production, ships, pop, detection etc. etc.). I can't seem to do anything about this, and it's unplayable.

Didn't happen last time I played (a few months ago)

Any tips?

Thanks

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:58 pm
by Magnate
When playing with the Video options, both "Window Height" and "Window Top Position" cause the window to shrink (to tiny) when I click Apply, rather than changing the position or size.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:24 am
by Dilvish
Sorry to hear you are having trouble; sounds quite strange. Do you know what the resolution of your screen is?

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:30 am
by EricF
Two possible solutions from a Win10 standpoint;
Move the Taskbar to the bottom. (Probably undesirable since you moved it to the top)
Select 'Small Taskbar buttons' from the Taskbar settings menu.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:30 am
by The Silent One
That sounds strange - does that happen while in full-screen or windowed mode?
Try changing to the other one in the options > video (don't forget to push "apply" at the bottom).

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:21 am
by Magnate
Thanks for the replies - it might have been the difference between a maximised window and full-screen mode. Will try next time. Important to note that it wasn't the Win10 taskbar that was the problem, it was the title bar of the Freeorion window itself. I guess it wasn't properly full-screen because there should have been no title bar - but I'm not familiar with the pitfalls of Win10.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 6:05 am
by Geoff the Medio
For this sort of issue, screenshots would be preferable.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:16 am
by RemcoBlaakmeer
I think I've got the same problem, running FreeOrion 0.4.7.1 on Windows 8.1.

I made two screenshots. The first is right after starting FreeOrion in windowed mode. The second is right after starting a new singleplayer game.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:17 am
by RemcoBlaakmeer
I forgot to add the second screenshot in my previous reply.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:25 am
by RemcoBlaakmeer
Looking at my own screenshots, it seems like a bit is missing on all four sides of the window, like if FreeOrion tries to render in the full outer size of the window, without accounting for the width of the window borders.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:07 pm
by dbenage-cx
I assume not all windows users are seeing this behavior. Any chance this is a result of installation?

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:05 pm
by alleryn
dbenage-cx wrote:I assume not all windows users are seeing this behavior. Any chance this is a result of installation?
I did try widening my borders on windows 10 by switching to a different theme and the window displayed properly, accounting for the increased border width.

It's my understanding that there are various ways of editing window border width in windows 8/8.1/10 (whereas there was more one "standard" way to do it in windows 7); perhaps that might account for differences in observed behavior?

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:57 am
by RemcoBlaakmeer
A further two points to add:

I observed the same behaviour in the 27 November test build (FreeOrion_2017-11-26.cbf1e48_Test_Win32_Setup.exe).

On another laptop, the behaviour was as expected: everything is rendered inside the window borders. This laptop is running Windows 10, but (obviously) on different hardware. So it could be a graphics card driver related issue.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:55 pm
by Geoff the Medio
An updated version of SDL might help. The SDK currently includes 2.0.4 and 2.0.7 has been released.

Re: Win10 title bar obscures icons

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:55 am
by RemcoBlaakmeer
dbenage-cx wrote:I assume not all windows users are seeing this behavior. Any chance this is a result of installation?
I tried two different FreeOrion versions (0.4.7.1 and the then latest test version) on the same computer, with the same result. On a different computer, the screen was rendered correctly.
Geoff the Medio wrote:An updated version of SDL might help. The SDK currently includes 2.0.4 and 2.0.7 has been released.
Using SDL2.dll version 2.0.7 does not help.