DPI aware?

[Jack]

I have my PI-5 hooked up to a large screen 3840x2160 and changed the default display setting for large screen, I don't know the actual aspect ratio as there were only 3 options, set default for large, medium or small screen
setting the default for large screen works well except for QB64pe, if I change the Font size in pixels from 19 to 21 then the IDE looks ok but the programs display in a tiny window with tiny fonts, same when using $Console:Only
any plans to make QB64pe DPI aware ?

[Kernelpanic]

I guess DPI isn't going anywhere.    Forget it! That's life!

[James D Jarvis]

I have my PI-5 hooked up to a large screen 3840x2160 and changed the default display setting for large screen, I don't know the actual aspect ratio as there were only 3 options, set default for large, medium or small screen
setting the default for large screen works well except for QB64pe, if I change the Font size in pixels from 19 to 21 then the IDE looks ok but the programs display in a tiny window with tiny fonts, same when using $Console:Only
any plans to make QB64pe DPI aware ?

Not sure it will meet all of your needs but one solution is to write most of your program output to a canvas layer and put that canvas layer on a scaled up output screen. 
This example code creates a canvas layer that is set to fixed pixel size and a main screen that is 80% of your desktop size. 

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Dim Shared canvas&, mscreen&

canvas& = _NewImage(360, 240, 256)

DTW = _DesktopWidth

DTH = _DesktopHeight

mscreen& = _NewImage(DTW * .8, DTH * .8, 256) 'this will make a maiscreen for the program 80% the size of the desktop

Screen mscreen&

_ScreenMove 20, 20

_Dest canvas& 'output to canvas

Print "Hello"

Print "01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789" 'This will wrap becasue 360 is pretty narrow

Print

Print "Press ANY KEY"

_Dest mscreen& 'output to main screen

_PutImage , canvas& 'put the canavas on the screen



Line (0, 0)-(359, 239), 15, B 'this box is drawn on the mainscreem

_PrintString (362, 200), "<--- Box is size of Canavs But Drawn on Mainscreen" 'this message will be vanishingly small on large screens

Sleep

_Dest canvas& 'output to canvas

Cls

Color 14

Print "Hello"

Print "01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789" 'This will wrap becasue 360 is pretty narrow

Print

Print "  Box is size of Canavs, Drawn on Canvas -->"

Print

Print "Press ANY KEY"

Line (0, 0)-(359, 239), 14, B 'this box is drawn on the canvas



_Dest mscreen& 'output to main screen

_PutImage , canvas& 'put the canavas on the screen



Sleep

[Gets]

Quickest approach my be to add RESIZE so you can stretch out lower resolution programs. QB64 isn't designed to adjust those parameters for you because they're under the programmer's control or in line with Qbasic various SCREEN settings. If you want relative settings you need to create the functions yourself like James' example. If you want to make adjustments based on system settings, you probably need a library that provides access to them