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Improve default font, mouse, and line thickness scaling on macOS #228

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Fix: adjust default font, mouse, and line thickness for macOS usability
JingRyu Jun 3, 2025
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Improve default font, mouse, and line thickness scaling on macOS
JingRyu Jun 3, 2025
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fix pycodestyle error
JingRyu Jun 4, 2025
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16 changes: 13 additions & 3 deletions src/screencast_keys/preferences.py
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# <pep8 compliant>


import platform
import bpy
from bpy.props import (
StringProperty,
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from . import common
from . import c_structure as cstruct # extensions.blender.org: Delete line

is_macos = platform.system() == 'Darwin'


# extensions.blender.org: Delete block start
@BlClassRegistry()
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max=100,
)

# Increase default font size on macOS (Retina) for better visibility
font_size: bpy.props.IntProperty(
name="Font Size",
default=int(bpy.context.preferences.ui_styles[0].widget.points),
default=int(
bpy.context.preferences.ui_styles[0].widget.points
* (5 if is_macos else 1)),
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I think changing font_size is not good idea because this configuration should be constraint in user side.
Instead, we can change the scale before feeding the font_size to API.
This is same for others.

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Hi nutti, thank you for your suggestion! My quarter is about to end, and I will fix this the next few days!

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@JingRyu
Thank you. It's ok to me.
If you have any help, please let me know.

min=6,
max=1000
)
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max=1000
)

# Increase default line thickness on macOS (Retina) for better visibility
line_thickness: bpy.props.FloatProperty(
name="Line Thickness",
default=1,
default=1 * (4 if is_macos else 1),
min=1,
max=100
)

# Increase default mouse size on macOS (Retina) for better visibility
mouse_size: bpy.props.IntProperty(
name="Mouse Size",
default=int(bpy.context.preferences.ui_styles[0].widget.points * 3),
default=int(
bpy.context.preferences.ui_styles[0].widget.points * 3
* (4 if is_macos else 1)),
min=18,
max=1000,
)
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