gal cannot start on surface book

Using "glview" a nice tool that dumps all the gl driver info on Windows.

I attached a report of the Intel HD 520 reported capabilities.

Getting a report of the Nvidia chip will be difficult

also 3d viewer works fine, just GAL isnt working

All the "has the entry point .. missing" messages at the end of the report look a bit suspicious. Though it does not explain why does GpuTest work flawlessly.

Is there a way to force enable the Nvidia GPU? I assume that the Intel GPU is used by default.

I forced the Nvidia GPU for pcbnew and glview. Pcbnew still failed to start GAL.

I suspect this could be related to my other bug where the window scaling is completely broken on the high resolution display. When I start gal it creates a TINY TINY little "window" where you can only see part of the X which is what I assume OPENGL_TEST creates. If its dependent on the window scaling in anyway it probably is dieing.

http://i.imgur.com/M0i5wID.png

You can see the blue "X" box above the mouse which is the window that opens when attempting to switch before the errror message appears. I tried changing my screen resolution but for some reason it looks like wxwidgets/kicad completely shoots itself in the face with the high res display.

Found the problem, its DPI related.

The wxSize( 50, 50 ) is too small for high DPI monitors. It ends up being small as the image above. Because of this Render event is never generated. (Confirmed via debugger). Changing the size to 500 x 500 fixes it.

One suggestion I have is trying to use wxDLG_UNIT like this

wxDLG_UNIT( GetParent(), wxSize( 50, 50 ) )

which will attempt to scale relative to the parent window font size.

That seems to work but how well it does on other monitors,etc no clue.

Your suggestion works fine on my PC (W7, monitor 1920x1080)
Using wxDLG_UNIT, the actual size is 75, 75.