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Disabling resolution warning

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egg_green

Well-known member
Greetings and salutations!

Sorry to keep bugging you with feature requests, but this is something that is a major personal annoyance for me:

I use a tablet PC, and I often find myself starting HeroLab while I'm in Portrait Mode. Which should be fine, except that when I'm in portrait mode, I'm running at a resolution of 768x1024. Since the display is less than 800 pixels wide, I get an error saying my resolution isn't high enough, and the program won't start.

I should mention that if I rotate the screen, start the program, and then rotate back, everything works fine; HL looks fine at 768x1024. It's just annoying that the program won't even start!

Is there be some way I could disable the resolution check/error on startup? Or, alternately, could you make the error into a warning instead, so that the program would start anyway after complaining? It's a lot less annoying to click away a dialog box on startup than it is to rotate the screen and restart the program.

Thanks for your consideration!

--Emmanuel
 
egg_green wrote:
>
>
> Greetings and salutations!
>
> Sorry to keep bugging you with feature requests, but this is something
> that is a major personal annoyance for me:
>
> I use a tablet PC, and I often find myself starting HeroLab while I'm in
> Portrait Mode. Which should be fine, except that when I'm in portrait
> mode, I'm running at a resolution of 768x1024. Since the display is less
> than 800 pixels wide, I get an error saying my resolution isn't high
> enough, and the program won't start.
>
> I should mention that if I rotate the screen, start the program, and
> then rotate back, everything works fine; HL looks fine at 768x1024. It's
> just annoying that the program won't even start!
>
> Is there be some way I could disable the resolution check/error on
> startup? Or, alternately, could you make the error into a warning
> instead, so that the program would start anyway after complaining? It's
> a lot less annoying to click away a dialog box on startup than it is to
> rotate the screen and restart the program.


Settings menu -> Basic Settings -> Disable resolution check at startup


Neither Rob nor I have a tablet PC, so we can't really test how well HL
works at low resolutions. The check is there to make sure that people
know that it's an unsupported way of doing things.


Hope this helps,

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
 
Brilliant! That's exactly what I needed. And thanks so much for the quick response.

BTW, HL works brilliantly on a Tablet PC. There isn't much typing required, so it's wonderful to just point at stuff and have it happen. Due to the low resolution, only one sidebar is visible, but that isn't really a problem.

Thanks again,
Emmanuel
 
egg_green wrote:
>
>
> Brilliant! That's exactly what I needed. And thanks so much for the
> quick response.
>
> BTW, HL works brilliantly on a Tablet PC. There isn't much typing
> required, so it's wonderful to just point at stuff and have it happen.
> Due to the low resolution, only one sidebar is visible, but that isn't
> really a problem.


Awesome! Glad to hear it's working out for you. :)


I've been considering getting a tablet pc for a while, but so far the
benefits haven't outweighed the extra costs for it. Some day, though...



--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
 
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