Thread: Is there a way to make the entries in the search fields appear larger?
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Old 05-22-2016, 08:09 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
On my system(s), the S&R text entries appear to be the same size as the file names in the Book Browser, and the entries in the Table of Contents widget (as well as the tab label). Are you not experiencing something similar? Or are those texts also too small?
If they are the same size, it must be a coincidence. Windows 10 gives users only very limited options to adjust text sizes independent of display scaling, and I tested them all today. None of them worked to change the size of the S&R entries. Interestingly, I discovered if you adjust the size of “Icons” then the sizes in both the Book Browser and Table of Contents panes will also change! Go figure.

While this is good to know, I did not have much of an issue with the text sizes in those two panes, in part because editing those items does not demand as much precision and accuracy as does doing regex S&R activities on multiple html files. You can always go back and correct something in the Book Browser and TOC panes, but undoing some massive S&R actions is more difficult. Also, if I ever have a lot of TOC editing to do, I can always fall back on Calibre’s TOC editor, which is easy to use and has larger type.

What I’ve ended up doing now is just raise the display scaling slightly higher, but only by a little bit. I can’t do it too much as then it distorts everything else. This really doesn’t fix the issue. The Windows font adjustment for whatever is controlling the S&R field is apparently hidden. Or it’s available only from the system registry. If anyone ever discovers where it is or how to access it, please let me know. I’m comfortable with doing small and limited changes to the system registry.

By the way, I’ve noticed that you and KevinH now work on Sigil. Thanks to both of you and anyone else who is involved for keeping it updated and improving it. When I last updated in March, I noticed how much faster epubs opened up in it. It sometimes used to take up to a minute or more to open some epubs. Now everything seems to open up in a fraction of that time. It’s like night and day. Great work!

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