Renoise 3.5 track DSP selector uses inappropriate font line height

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There’s a regression in the font rendering in Renoise 3.5 and 3.5.1 compared to 3.4.x and earlier releases. This is on an up-to-date Windows 10 installation.

This is in 3.4.4, where the line spacing in the DSP effect list is appropriate and matches the height of the box (no wasted space):
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This is 3.5.1 (and 3.5 for the matter). Notice how there’s one fewer item visible (no Pro-R 2 show in 3.5.1), which is pretty critical considering how few items can already be seen in this box by default:
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That and of course the approximately half a line of empty space that doesn’t fit a line is just wasted. I’d hope to revert the line height to as it was previously (imo the preferred option), or alternatively increase the height of the box to accommodate the same amount of items.

Also as an aside, maybe time to finally re-think the size and implementation of the DSP box UI in general? It’s starting to feel a bit “2005” in terms of usability… :slight_smile: (although I love being able to rename plugins into anything I want in order to sanitize and clean up messy names; please don’t ever get rid of this!)

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Worth noting that this seems to only apply to this tiny tracks DSP list box, and not for an example the VST/plugin instrument instrument box. Comparing those, the text is rendered identically with the same line height.

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Gloriously 2005, you mean. :slight_smile: