0.49.5 can't set equipment mode

[BLR-IIC]

With the new dockable unit display I can no longer set equipment modes at any time during the game. With the old pane there was a dropdown menu to allow for mode changes for equipment like ECM and targeting computers. That dropdown menu is no longer there, and the "Mode" button only changes weapon modes on the weapon list.

[SimonLandmine]

Dropdown menu on Systems tab is still showing for me on docked (and undocked) unit display in 0.49.5 MM Standalone (Win10, Java11), allowing me to change equipment modes. May relate to version/Java/OS?

[BLR-IIC]

I've experienced this on a Surface Pro 2 running Windows 10 and Java 15.0.2.

[SimonLandmine]

Thanks for confirming OS and Java version! Was it MM standalone or HQ bundle?

[Windchild292]

Java 15 is not supported. Java 11 is our maximum supported version.

[BLR-IIC]

I just downgraded my Java to version 11 and I still don't have the mode dropdown:

[BLR-IIC]

I wonder if it's somehow being cut off from the bottom of the unit display... Any time I undock the unit display the bottom seems missing. I am running this on a Surface Pro 2 after all.

[BLR-IIC]

[SimonLandmine]

Yep, you definitely appear to be missing the bottom of the unit display. I take it that resizing the unit display doesn't restore the missing portion?

[BLR-IIC]

Nope, resizing doesn't affect it. I manually played with window options in one of MegaMek's configuration files and didn't fix the problem. I'll have to try this on my 24" screen and see what happens.

[BLR-IIC]

I'm on the latest version (0.49.6) and it definitely appears that the unit display is cutting off the dropdown option for setting equipment mode. I think that's what's happening because the armor display on an aero unit is partially hidden by an abrupt end to the unit display's bottom edge:

[SimonLandmine]

What size monitor are you using? And what's your operating system?

[BLR-IIC]

Still same OS, same tablet, same Java - Windows 10, Surface Pro 2, Java 11. It's like the dockable unit display isn't automatically scaling to my screen size, or using a scroll bar. The screen is 10.6" with a max resolution of 1920x1080 scaled to 150%.

I bolded the last part because the 150% scaling is recommended by Microsoft to improve UX with the smaller screen, and it really does help. What seems to be happening is that MegaMek isn't properly adjusting to the scaling, making parts of the UI disappear as a result.

So now I know why it's happening. I just wish it wasn't happening :(

[BLR-IIC]

I did a little more research and found something helpful right on MegaMek's GitHub wiki: Add -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1 to the configuration file. At least I won't have to mess with my Windows 10 screen scaling, but the UI for MegaMek aside from the menu bar at the top of the window is pretty small:

It seems that MegaMek needs to be friendlier to Windows UI scaling. Note that this was NOT a problem before the unit display became dockable in 0.49.5.