SAP Design Studio/Eclipse on Retina Mac with Window 10 in Parallels resolution issue

Posted by Xavier Hacking

I’m running a virtual machine version of Windows 10 in Parallels 11 on my Mac. The MacBook has this cool high res super sharp retina screen.

Problem is that Eclipse, and thus SAP Design Studio somehow cannot cope with this: all icons from the icon bar and the components on the layout editor are suddenly extremely small. Unworkable small. Also the popup windows are all weirdly cropped. And I’m not the only one with this issue. Changing the resolution settings in Windows didn’t help.

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The solution/workaround for my specific situation eventually was pretty easy. It only took me a few months to stumble upon it, sigh… Parallels has an option in the View menu to switch the Retina Resolution. Put it on Scaled and the resolution is again Eclipse/Design Studio compatible.

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Now let’s hope the next version of Eclipse/Design Studio fixes this, as it is the only tool that gives me these kinds of problems and I really want to use the retina screen where it is created for.

HackingSAP.com - Nov 18, 2015 | SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
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