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API inconsistency with DPI_AWARE flag

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Dificultad
5/5
Tiempo estimado
Más de una semana
Aptitud para principiantes
25/100
Tipo de issue
Refactorización
Claridad
Necesita aclaración
Estado de actividad
Estancado
Stack tecnológico
cpp, lua
Área
api, desktop

Línea de trabajo

Comienza rastreando r_renderer_c::VirtualScreenScaleFactor() y los puntos de entrada de la API GetScreenSize y GetScaleFactor; después, compara cómo las funciones de renderizado manejan sus argumentos de posición y tamaño. Revisa los cambios de DPI_AWARE en los PRs 44, 80 y 86, así como el código de escalado relacionado de Win32/GLFW. Se considera terminado cuando el contrato de la API y el comportamiento del escalado en tiempo de ejecución son coherentes, y el comportamiento previsto de Lua está cubierto por pruebas o por un procedimiento de verificación documentado.

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Descripción

The DPI_AWARE flag was introduced with https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-SimpleGraphic/pull/44/commits/59492a4003ea77c03f9ae62c5e66a13afd02f313 as a way for the Lua code to opt out of the virtualization and get access to physical sizes/positions.

With the recent work on UI scaling in https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-SimpleGraphic/pull/80 and https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-SimpleGraphic/pull/86, the API has ended up in an inconsistent state where some functions use physical units if DPI_AWARE is set, but others still use virtual units in its arguments and return values.

For example, GetScreenSize returns physical units (i.e. the pixel size of the framebuffer), while all the other API functions still receive and return virtual units. It looks like PoB Lua code is not ready to deal with physical units, so the screen size is actually mapped right back to virtual units. Maybe PoB just shouldn't set the DPI_AWARE flag yet because everything seems to be done in virtual units at the moment. But that leads us to the second problem(?):

With the current implementation of r_renderer_c::VirtualScreenScaleFactor() and its usage in the API functions, the DPI_AWARE flag seems to serve two different functions:

  1. A way to influence the "API contract" between the Lua code and SimpleGraphic. Setting it tells the API to accept and return positions and sizes in physical units instead of virtual units (this seems to be in line with the original intention of this flag).
  2. To control whether application UI scaling is performed by the runtime. Before the recent changes, VirtualScreenScaleFactor was only used to determine which factor to return to Lua in the GetScaleFactor API function. Currently, it is also being used in the render functions to scale their position/size arguments. Not setting the flag means 1.0 is always returned, effectively turning off scaling.

The second behavior surprised me a bit. This means we cannot unset the flag and only use virtual units between Lua <-> Runtime because it would turn off the scaling entirely.

Here is how i expected it to work:

  • Make the runtime always DPI aware and perform app scaling: I'm not very familiar with the win32 api but it looks like we can tell the OS that our application is per-monitor (v2) DPI aware. Maybe that's already the case? I've also spotted code that checks registry values to decide whether to ignore the scaling factor returned by GLFW. Not sure if that's needed anymore.
  • Have the flag only affect the API contract, meaning physical units are used between Lua and SimpleGraphic if the flag is set, otherwise we only let Lua know about the virtual world. Not setting the flag shouldn't have any effect on whether scaling is performed.
  • If users want to override the scaling factor given by the OS, they can use the newly added scaling factor override in the settings.
  • With these changes, we can unset the DPI_AWARE flag again, since PoB doesn't currently care about the physical world, but still retain the scaling behavior.

If i'm missing something or wrongly interpreted the intention behind the flag, then just ignore my approach. This API inconsistency manifested itself in a very minor problem that I've opted to fix on the Lua side for now: https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/pull/9373.

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C++
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62
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4

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