P: Support scalable user interface UI for high resolution monitors

Awww SNAP! Too bad comments don't allow images. I guess I'll have to post a reply to the general topic then....

Jeffrey, in response to your question re: Menu size. In reading through the comments, the concern is that the only options appear to be microscopically tiny or comically huge, with no middle ground allowable. In reference to drop-down menus in specific, the UI font size setting in prefs has no effect whatever on those menus, only on the text within panels, palettes, etc.

Oh. Well, it's good that the Illustrator and InDesign team got the scaling APIs to work at least.

You can disable Scale UI to 200% under Preferences>Experimental Features.

Is your concern is around the size of the menus being too large in CC 2014? Currently, we scale the menus based on the Photoshop 2x preference. We're investigating a change to decouple this such that the menu size is controlled by the OS and just the UI size (panels, tool bars, etc) is controlled by the Photoshop preference.

We could only enable the optional 200% scaling at this time. We are continuing to work with Microsoft to fix the OS scaling APIs and find workarounds so that we might be able to do more general UI scaling in the future.

The video doesn't help programmers at all, because the Windows scaling APIs were (and some still are) broken. Again, we spent a LOT of time working with Microsoft to get the scaling/drawing APIs fixed or find workarounds to the problems in the Microsoft OS code. We are continuing to work with Microsoft to possibly enable more general UI scaling.

Apparently Adobe is at the mercy of Windows when it comes to scaling the UI. But this problem didn't seem to exist in earlier versions that ran fine under the same OS. From what I've read (and I have yet to test to see it for myself), this problem is less critical under MacOS.

Sorry. I guess the video is really for the programmers at Adobe. If curious, you can see what kind of features Windows 8.1 has in terms of scaling UIs for different monitors with different DPI resolutions. In some cases, Windows can do the scaling automatically, but if the program is designed to completely ignore the system/monitor DPI settings, then everything will stay tiny. The video tells programmers how to make their software more aware of the DPI resolution changes between monitors.

thats a ....very....long....video. Anybody want to give us the abbreviated verson?

Yes,..i agree, Stephanie.....why can't Adobe create a software fix for adjusting the UI for hd monitors.....at this point, cs5, 6 and cc seem like fair requests.....