Resize Preferences Window

saltynexus
Using the desktop version 5.0.89, I'm having an issue resizing the preferences window. In fact, I don't even have an option to. It only resizes the window when I click on different tabs which contain more information than the previous window. If I don't click on the largest tab ("cite") then the window hides options and there is no scroll to get to them.
  • dstillman
    What OS? Can you take a screenshot, upload it somewhere (e.g., Dropbox), and provide a link here?

    The window isn't meant to be resizable — it's automatically sized to the content. That's a little buggy, though, due to the underlying framework we use. But usually that manifests itself by getting bigger than it needs to be, not smaller, and closing and reopening the preferences with a different tab selected fixes it.
  • saltynexus
    Windows OS

    As for the resize on content, it does for all tabs except the "Better Bibtex" tab. I have to click on the "cite" tab prior to "Better Bibtex" in order to see the full content.
  • qqbb
    This should be a display scaling issue, see the discussion here. As explained there, the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting might provide a workaround. You should keep in mind, though, that the setting could create new issues, e.g., with multi-monitor setups. But for me, it's working well.
  • dstillman
    This isn't about display scaling — it's just about resizing of the window based on the contents. This is likely just a result of BBT injecting the prefpane in a way that doesn't work with the built-in window resizing.

    We'll likely provide a better way to add custom preferences in a future version.
  • qqbb
    This isn't about display scaling — it's just about resizing of the window based on the contents.
    That's possible, I have no idea about the underlying technical problem. The observation is that the BBT prefpane issue only occurs with certain display scaling settings on Windows. For me, the issue occurs with layout.css.devPixelsPerPx set to 1.5, but it doesn't when setting this to 1.4.

    Thanks for working on possible improvements that might fix this issue!
  • emilianoeheyns
    It's almost certainly BBT's fault. If you want to, you can open an issue on the BBT GH and we can see if we can figure this out. I don't have access to Windows though -- does anyone here know whether I can replicate such display-scaling behavior on a Mac?
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