If you try to work with SAP HANA Studio on HiDPI (High resolution display), like Apple retina or Microsoft Surface, you will see that there is a problem with the size of the icons:
In Surface 4 at 2736×1824, icons are tiny, unusable, as you can see in the screenshot (compare it with the size of the fonts):
As HANA Studio is based in Eclipse, I tried some recommendations that I found in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=421383#c60 with correct results:
Windows instructions
Create a new registry key with REGEDIT
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\
And create a new entry (DWORD VALUE)
Name: PreferExternalManifest
Value: 1
Create a Manifest file
Open hdbstudio.exe location (by default C:\Program Files\sap\hdbstudio)
Create a new file: hdbstudio.exe.manifest (or use the attached file, and remove .xml extension)
with this content:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”yes”?>
<assembly xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ manifestVersion=”1.0″ xmlns:asmv3=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3″>
<description>eclipse</description>
<trustInfo xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2″>
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel xmlns:ms_asmv3=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3″
level=”asInvoker”
ms_asmv3:uiAccess=”false”>
</requestedExecutionLevel>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<asmv3:application>
<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings“>
<ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings“>false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware>
</asmv3:windowsSettings>
</asmv3:application>
</assembly>
Now, you can open your HANA Studio with “normal” icons 🙂
Disclaimer: Note that modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system.
Hello Xavier,
Thanks ever so much for this workaround. I have been suffering with my UHD 4K (3840×2160) screen and studio.
The workaround does make the text slightly jagged and fuzzy (blurred) but at least the text is legible and the icons are visible.
Thanks again.
KR,
Amerjit