labels displaced on macos?

Jaspal Sahota jaspalsahota at gmail.com
Sun May 15 23:37:24 BST 2022


Yes, my Mac does have a high dpi display

Thanks for pointing me at the dev version, but I get this when trying to install that:
> Error: No head is defined for survex/survex/survex

Regards

Jas
On 14 May 2022, 23:58 +0100, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>, wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:10:35PM +0100, Jaspal Sahota wrote:
> > Using Aven (Survex 1.4.2) on MacOS 12.3.1 I see the stations appear to
> > be displaced from the plot of the survey on the screen. Would someone
> > help me fix it please?
> > The link shows a
> > screenshot https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7gcwukrmmmdmau/survex%20mac%20error.png?dl=0
> >
> > Clicking on the plot to select a station/measure distance doesn’t
> > work…on Windows, using the same file I can measure distances between
> > stations just fine, but on Mac it seems to want me to click over on
> > the ‘displaced’ labels.
>
> Does your Mac have a hidpi display?
>
> This sounds like it's probably due a hidpi problem at least - if so,
> there's better hidpi support which isn't yet in a release. The problem
> is that hidpi isn't done the same way on different platforms so it's
> hard for me to tests as I only have Linux and a non-hidpi display.
>
> You can install the development version via homebrew to test - see the
> bottom of https://github.com/ojwb/homebrew-survex for how.
>
> Perhaps I just need to take the plunge and make a release and plan to
> iterate promptly if there are problems. It's not like 1.4.2 works
> perfectly with hidpi displays after all.
>
> Cheers,
> Olly


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