Uncouple marquee display window from primary display window

Issue #5625 new
Hifihedgehog created an issue

Because BigBox's application windows (main and marquee) are tied to a single executable, Windows applies DPI to both unilaterally. If the marquee and the primary display have different DPI settings, the marquee window gets stuck on the primary display. Some marquee monitors have especially low resolutions (e.g. 1280x390 is commonplace) so changing the scaling on the marquee (ideal) isn't possible because Windows forcibly hard sets them to 100%. This forces you to change the primary display's scaling to 100%. This is absolutely undesirable especially with high resolution 4K displays becoming the norm because that means dealing with reading teeny tiny text on your display. That said, a PowerScript script I published to the forums (https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/46631-marquee-monitor-problem-in-bigbox/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-363540) overcomes this issue in the interim by allowing users to only switch their DPI for their primary display when running BigBox via this script, thereby avoiding to have to strain their eyes to navigate a miniaturized UI. For Kodi users who use the Launchbox plugin to launch BigBox, this script workaround is a non-option, of course, making this issue all the more important to be attended to.

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