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Title: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: malakas13 on August 23, 2016, 10:38:40 am

So installed everything manually (FS2 GOG, FS2 open 3.7.4, wxLauncher), configured everything in the launcher and everything went smooth.

Next day boot up pc, start launcher but no play button appears: http://i.imgur.com/Df51fTL.jpg

I reinstalled the launcher and play button pops up again. But then same thing today, play button is gone again.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: urielsd on August 23, 2016, 11:41:34 am

Is your DPI set to 100% in Windows? If not, try this reboot pc and verify if the Play button appears once again.

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on August 23, 2016, 01:52:12 pm

What resolution is your desktop?

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: malakas13 on August 23, 2016, 02:31:07 pm

Quote from: urielsd on August 23, 2016, 11:41:34 am

Is your DPI set to 100% in Windows? If not, try this reboot pc and verify if the Play button appears once again.

Apparently that did the trick, thanks!


Although the dpi were already set at 100% (smaller) I had to set 125% and then back to 100%.

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: urielsd on August 24, 2016, 03:46:49 pm

Glad I could be of help.  :yes:
It would be nice if the launcher handled different DPIs correctly, though  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: Iss Mneur on August 24, 2016, 06:59:29 pm

Quote from: urielsd on August 24, 2016, 03:46:49 pm

It would be nice if the launcher handled different DPIs correctly, though

Yep :)

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: jr2 on August 25, 2016, 07:06:02 am

Writing DPI-Aware Desktop and Win32 Applications (MSDN) (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn469266%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396)

From my skimming of the article, it seems it is possible to set the application as non-DPI aware, and let Windows automagically handle everything (wouldn't work on XP though)?

Title: Re: No Help/Play button in wxLauncher
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on August 26, 2016, 12:46:11 am

Quote from: jr2 on August 25, 2016, 07:06:02 am

From my skimming of the article, it seems it is possible to set the application as non-DPI aware, and let Windows automagically handle everything (wouldn't work on XP though)?

The application should already be set as non-DPI-aware.