Support for "virtual pixelsize" on 4k screens.

On 4k devices the default pixel size leads to tiny OpenGL drawing
that is hardly usable without doubling the DPI. The retina system
on OSX aims to alleviate this problem by introducing a general 2x
pixel size.

No equivalent feature exists on other platforms so far. However,
to emulate the effect this patch introduces a "virtual" pixel size
factor for OpenGL drawing.

Note that the user currently has to enable this manually by selecting
the "Virtual Pixel Mode" in the user preferences (defaults to native).
All windows of a Blender instance share the same virtual pixel size as well.
It may be possible to handle this on a per-window basis and automate
the selection somewhat (if enabled by the user), so working with
multiple screens becomes more convenient, but technical limitations
make this a bit difficult (on X11 with nvidia drivers the actual screen size
is not reported correctly).

Reviewers: ton, campbellbarton

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D669

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h b/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
index e0639b098a8..bf96e020a48 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ void		wm_window_swap_buffers	(wmWindow *win);
 void		wm_window_set_swap_interval	(wmWindow *win, int interval);
 int			wm_window_get_swap_interval	(wmWindow *win);
 
+float		wm_window_pixelsize(wmWindow *win);
+
 void		wm_get_cursor_position	(wmWindow *win, int *x, int *y);
 
 wmWindow	*wm_window_copy			(bContext *C, wmWindow *winorig);