Default_5.0_@2x Reaper Theme for HiDPI screens

White Tie · 01-28-2017, 04:53 PM

v5.34pre releases include experimental functionality for the first steps towards Windows 8.1+ HiDPI support, and MacOS Retina support in Reaper.
Here is a rebuild of the Default 5.0 theme, for testing with that functionality.

edit: updated on Feb 15th 2017

Test with 5.34pre7 or later!

http://landoleet.org/dev/Default_5.0...ReaperThemeZip

Install the theme.
On Windows: Options > Preferences > General > Advanced UI/system tweaks > HiDPI mode. Restart REAPER.
Options > Themes > select Default_5.0_hidpi.

Its currently just the standard sized layouts, and has been produced for 200% scaling. Quality of appearance at other scales may or may not appear aggreeable to you. Both theme and the HiDPI functionality are very much a work in progress, but this is a good point to start testing. You'll find many things aren't correct yet, and while its probable that we know about many of them, please don't assume so; if its wrong then please do report it, there will be others

re: macOS Retina support -- note that it is only supporting Retina for the track panels, mixer, transport, toolbars, and tab controls. The arrange view and MIDI editor are still rendered at low resolution.

JHughes · 01-28-2017, 05:23 PM

Thanks a million White Tie, this is exciting news.

ivansc · 01-29-2017, 01:30 AM

(grin) LOoks kinda silly on my 15" laptop!
WT this is great news. Off to try it on my 2560x1440 monitor...

miguelmarques · 01-29-2017, 03:16 AM

No HiDPI mode option on Mac?

SmajjL · 01-29-2017, 12:24 PM

I am not on 4K yet but I was also p-l-e-a-s-e-d, trust me! the future needs this so bad.

Curiously tried it on a 1080p eh-hehe

must see now, must see now, can't wait to go HiDPI, oh maaaan!-worth it.

gavanbruderer · 01-30-2017, 07:59 AM

Not seeing this option on macOS. Is it forthcoming?

Futur8me · 01-30-2017, 08:08 AM

Yes can we have this for Mac as well please.

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White Tie · 01-30-2017, 08:09 AM

No, I'm afraid this experiment is taking place on Windows only, and only 8.1 or later.

Justin · 01-30-2017, 08:11 AM

macOS HiDPIness will likely happen at some point, but I can't say when that will be, sorry!

Futur8me · 01-30-2017, 08:23 AM

I'm sad now.. hehe.., but thank you for the reply Justin and White tie.

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BlackBart · 01-30-2017, 10:52 AM

Win10 with 4 HiDPI monitors. With HiDPI aware or MultiMonitor Aware, the splash screen is tiny. Nitpick, but I wanted to mention it.

FYI...I'm using 200% scaling...the recommended setting...on my display drivers.

BlackBart · 01-30-2017, 11:00 AM

Project Bay text fields at bottom are wonky.

Justin · 01-30-2017, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackBart

Project Bay text fields at bottom are wonky.

thanks!

miguelmarques · 01-30-2017, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Justin

macOS HiDPIness will likely happen at some point, but I can't say when that will be, sorry!

HiDPI on Macs are more common than on PCs, it's a pity we'll have to wait. Everyone I know that's on PC doesn't have HiDPI displays. Everyone I know that works with Reaper on Mac has them.

Not trying to be rude or anything, I'm just tired of blurry text and graphics with Reaper. It's the only app I own that doesn't support HiDPI.

marcoctn · 01-30-2017, 04:07 PM

sadly true.

(we love you though)

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Originally Posted by miguelmarques

HiDPI on Macs are more common than on PCs, it's a pity we'll have to wait. Everyone I know that's on PC doesn't have HiDPI displays. Everyone I know that works with Reaper on Mac has them.

Not trying to be rude or anything, I'm just tired of blurry text and graphics with Reaper. It's the only app I own that doesn't support HiDPI.

MT_ · 01-31-2017, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by White Tie

No, I'm afraid this experiment is taking place on Windows only, and only 8.1 or later.

Just tested the HiDPI theme with Reaper 5.33pre7, and it works and looks quite good. Thanks.

Update: Looks like there still are some buggy GUI elements at 200% — e.g. in MIDI editor, top toolbar is clipped by default (though fortunately can be revealed entirely by dragging its bottom edge down), and the plus/minus icons to the right of the controller dropdown at the bottom left are apparently unscaled at all. The HiDPI-related progress is impressive anyway though.

Given that it’s possible to run HiDPI-compatible and HiDPI-incompatible plugins side by side in the same Reaper by running HiDPI-compatible plugins like Spire (that supports scaling up to 200%) in the so called Native mode (so that plugin inherits DPI mode of Reaper itself) while running HiDPI-incompatible plugins like Battery (that still doesn’t support scaling) in a separate process (so that Windows automatically applies DPI scaling to those), Reaper is now a really good candidate to switch from hopeless Cubase.

Fwiw, as I said, HiDPI support is actually available in Reaper under Windows 7 either (not just 8.1+), just in a less convenient way: by editing the embedded manifest with a tool like Resource Hacker (separate-file extra manifest is unfortunately ignored by Windows).

Justin · 01-31-2017, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by miguelmarques

HiDPI on Macs are more common than on PCs, it's a pity we'll have to wait. Everyone I know that's on PC doesn't have HiDPI displays. Everyone I know that works with Reaper on Mac has them.

Not trying to be rude or anything, I'm just tired of blurry text and graphics with Reaper. It's the only app I own that doesn't support HiDPI.

Hmm, when the blurriness bothers you, is it more in the track control panel/mixer/etc, or in the arrange view? Or both?

miguelmarques · 01-31-2017, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Justin

Hmm, when the blurriness bothers you, is it more in the track control panel/mixer/etc, or in the arrange view? Or both?

The graphics I think I can handle it, even though it isn't perfect. Even though everything is blurry the buttons/faders/arrange items are not the main problem.

The main problem is definitely text! Whenever there's text it's always blurry, be it the plugin names, track names and numbers, region names, time counter, and so on on..

Justin · 01-31-2017, 12:47 PM

Now in 5.33pre8, there's some basic macOS Retina support -- note that it is only supporting Retina for the track panels, mixer, transport, toolbars, and tab controls. The arrange view and MIDI editor are still rendered at low resolution.

Here is the theme to use for macOS with retina displays:

http://landoleet.org/dev/Default_5.0...ReaperThemeZip

and use 5.33pre8 for macOS (which will be up shortly).

BPBaker · 01-31-2017, 01:25 PM

Thanks, Justin!

I'm really looking forward to giving this a spin on my Retina machine when I get home tonight!

miguelmarques · 01-31-2017, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Justin

Now in 5.33pre8, there's some basic macOS Retina support -- note that it is only supporting Retina for the track panels, mixer, transport, toolbars, and tab controls. The arrange view and MIDI editor are still rendered at low resolution.

Here is the theme to use for macOS with retina displays:

http://landoleet.org/dev/Default_5.0...ReaperThemeZip

and use 5.33pre8 for macOS (which will be up shortly).

AWESOME! It looks amazing, finally!! It's a huge improvement just to have this basic Retina support.

Is timecode on the toolbar supposed to be retina ready? The BPM section on the toolbar is out of place here.

Justin · 01-31-2017, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by miguelmarques

AWESOME! It looks amazing, finally!! It's a huge improvement just to have this basic Retina support.

Is timecode on the toolbar supposed to be retina ready? The BPM section on the toolbar is out of place here.

Ah yeah, fixing those

timlloyd · 01-31-2017, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Justin

Now in 5.33pre8, there's some basic macOS Retina support -- note that it is only supporting Retina for the track panels, mixer, transport, toolbars, and tab controls. The arrange view and MIDI editor are still rendered at low resolution.

Here is the theme to use for macOS with retina displays:

http://landoleet.org/dev/Default_5.0...ReaperThemeZip

and use 5.33pre8 for macOS (which will be up shortly).

Oh my! What an improvement

I seem to have to multiply the font size by 2, but presumably that's already known about.

swiiscompos · 01-31-2017, 04:42 PM

Beautiful!, small bug in the TCP:

Default:

Retina:

Justin · 01-31-2017, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by swiiscompos

Beautiful!, small bug in the TCP:

Default:

Retina:

Hah thanks!

Justin · 01-31-2017, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by timlloyd

Oh my! What an improvement

I seem to have to multiply the font size by 2, but presumably that's already known about.

macOS or Windows? Which font? The themes should have them adjusted, unless we missed some...

Justin · 01-31-2017, 08:05 PM

pre9 posted, should fix a bunch of random macOS retina things...

miguelmarques · 02-01-2017, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Justin

pre9 posted, should fix a bunch of random macOS retina things...

Perfect! As far as my usage go, pretty much all is great now.

Quick question, all external windows like Region Manager or Render to File and such are not retina. Are those hard to make them retina? It's mostly just text but I have no idea if that's easy to implement or not.

There's a graphic error on the wet/dry knob now, nothing huge but not sure if you noticed. https://sdbmastering.com/download/reaper_McwwdG.png. The non GUI plugin view is also messed up: https://sdbmastering.com/download/reaper2_lD73l8.png

Plugin windows (like Region Manager, Render to File...) are not retina yet, maybe all of these bugs are because of that?

gavanbruderer · 02-01-2017, 12:06 PM

Any chance someone could modify the MacOS theme a tad to allow me to turn off the TCP tinting? I know that it can be done, I'm just a newbie and when I tried, it definitely didn't work right. I use a lot of color coding, and it's making my entire window look a bit "too" colorful

timlloyd · 02-01-2017, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Justin

macOS or Windows? Which font? The themes should have them adjusted, unless we missed some...

macOS 10.12.2
REAPER v5.33pre9/64 rev 1a9270
Source Sans Pro Regular

v5 default theme, 13pt

New 'retina' theme, 26pt

HDWind · 02-04-2017, 03:57 PM

I work on 2560x1440 monitor, 200% scaling is too big.
Please make a theme with 130% scaling.

MT_ · 02-05-2017, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by HDWind

Please make a theme with 130% scaling.

For an application to be scalable to arbitrary ratios with no blur, its GUI should be based on vector graphics. I’m not sure (or even doubt) Reaper’s theming capabilities include this currently.

EvilDragon · 02-05-2017, 05:15 AM

@Justin - what does "Multimonitor aware (experimental)" option do (in Advanced UI/System tweaks)?

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Originally Posted by MT_

For an application to be scalable to arbitrary ratios with no blur, its GUI should be based on vector graphics. I’m not sure (or even doubt) Reaper’s theming capabilities include this currently.

I think HDWind can get what he wants with the scaling option in Advanced UI/System tweaks, set it to 1.3.

vitalker · 02-05-2017, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by HDWind

I work on 2560x1440 monitor, 200% scaling is too big.
Please make a theme with 130% scaling.

Did you try this(for 2x theme of course): https://stash.reaper.fm/v/29709/screen.JPG ?

EvilDragon · 02-05-2017, 05:23 AM

You'll want to fix that link

Evan · 02-05-2017, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HDWind

I work on 2560x1440 monitor, 200% scaling is too big.
Please make a theme with 130% scaling.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MT_

For an application to be scalable to arbitrary ratios with no blur, its GUI should be based on vector graphics. I’m not sure (or even doubt) Reaper’s theming capabilities include this currently.

It should be possible to provide (satisfactory) intermediate scaling options by the devs. Scaling the assets down (200% -> 130%) should be relatively easy to do with good results.

EvilDragon · 02-05-2017, 06:05 AM

...and is already possible.

vitalker · 02-05-2017, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by EvilDragon

You'll want to fix that link

Yep, you're right. Thanks!

MT_ · 02-05-2017, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by EvilDragon

@Justin - what does "Multimonitor aware (experimental)" option do (in Advanced UI/System tweaks)?

AFAICT, the entire HiDPI setting in Reaper currently do nothing except just making Reaper to run in corresponding formal DPI mode. So with the “Multimonitor aware” option, Reaper most likely just declares itself as per-monitor DPI-aware while not actually handling the corresponding WM_DPICHANGED event that needs to be handled for the application to be per-monitor DPI-aware. So “Multimonitor aware” is most likely currently effectively identical to just “Aware” that disables OS-powered blurry scaling.

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Originally Posted by EvilDragon

I think HDWind can get what he wants with the scaling option in Advanced UI/System tweaks, set it to 1.3.

Such scaling is currently buggy and incomplete. Btw, I’m not sure how this option is going to correlate to themes oriented to specific zoom levels like 200%.

MT_ · 02-05-2017, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Evan

It should be possible to provide (satisfactory) intermediate scaling options by the devs. Scaling the assets down (200% -> 130%) should be relatively easy to do with good results.

Good point, scaling an image down from higher resolution could look acceptably sharp. Though for themes based on multiple images supposed to interjoin seamlessly, such scaling can potentially result in an image looking not quite seamless (compared with pixel-perfect interjoining of theme parts at 100% scale) depending on how the graphics engine deals with theming and scaling.