UI looks off when not at default font size

[hiimzech]

ark is a 7 year old game now and with age comes failing eye sight. can't keep reading 8.25pt fonts anymore.
at a higher font the UI starts to hide and overlap some elements
in the screenshot below, at 12pt, speed stats is hidden from the left panel

in the following screen you can see some of the bars in "potential" is overlapping, and the "add new to library" button is hidden behind "save changes" button

while this is not really a bug report I do hope the UI can scale correctly.

please also consider adding a feature to show/hide the columns we want to see in the library tab

thank you so much. this tool is awesome

[coldino]

Sadly the UI framework we use is feeling its age too, at just over 20 years old. It was designed well before font scaling was a thing, which makes supporting it rather hard.

That said, it should be possible to fix some individual cases like these with some rework. The work can be complicated and messy, however, so have patience :)

please also consider adding a feature to show/hide the columns we want to see in the library tab

You can already shrink these columns down to zero width to hide them. Just drag the bar between columns in the header.

[cadon]

In the latest release v0.51.0 I tweaked some of the UI for better usability, especially the Save Changes button now behaves correctly and you can see all the stat values in the library. Unfortunately the colored species image in the library is now pushed out of sight, but you can see that when in the Testing tab (e.g. select a creature in the library and press F2 to see the image).
The used (and outdated) framework WinForms in combination with the sometimes complicated layered user interface makes it very hard to adjust the positioning and sizing properly in a dynamic way, at least it's a bit better now.