UI Scale In Mods Often Too Big

[Gianni1122]

Having the ability to adjust (specifically, decrease) the scale/size of the user interface windows that come with most mods is invaluable to me and presumably other players as well that have smaller displays. Mods like Mechjeb allow precise UI scaling while mods like DPAI, Konstruction and BDA have a fixed UI size. (I love and use all these mods so I'm not knocking them or their devs.) 

I've asked one or more of the devs that maintain the mods I mentioned if it would be possible to do this and they said it would be too difficult and or time consuming and I completely understand that.

So...

1) Would it be possible to, and if yes, would someone please make a mod that can control/adjust the UI scale of any mod? 

2) Is a mod like this only possible if it is created for one specific mod at a time?

3) Is there a simple workaround that I'm missing, such as changing something in the .cfg files of some mods?

4) Are there many other players who agree that a mod like this would be valuable? If so, please comment. I know @JAFO does :-)

[JAFO]

On 11/24/2016 at 3:47 AM, Gianni1122 said:

4) Are there many other players who agree that a mod like this would be valuable? If so, please comment. I know @JAFO does :-)

Indeed he does.. something like this would be very useful! I hope it's possible to accomplish.

[JPLRepo]

Although in theory this could be done it would have poor performance. It would be better if mods did it themselves. 

It would also be better performance if mods converted from IMGUI to the new GUI system but that is very time consuming and something I haven't done with my mods as well.

that said all my mods can resize Windows where it makes sense to have it.

its not that hard to add this to any UI window. It can be time consuming if the mod did not allow for it when written as you have to allow for resize of columns. But again not overly difficult, just a bit more work. Some might argue in those cases it would be of equal effort to just convert those cases to the new UI.

But it all comes down to whether the mod author wants to invest the time or not.

[Gianni1122]

@JPLRepo I love your mods by the way. They add great gameplay. Cheers for the UI scalability implementation as well.

I mostly assumed a dedicated "UI scaling mod" was kinda high hopes. It definitely makes me appreciate it more when mod authors do add it. I was so happy when you guys added the option to the core game. Maybe this post will bring awareness to the little known first world issue known as Small Screen UI Clutter (SSUCks)... Haha ;-)