Just wanted to know if it´s in the plans of the company. Scalable programs that run both on normal and hidpi displays are nowadays common. Most companies provide their products being fully adapted to hidpi or in emulation mode.
I want to add even JAVA SAP LOGON can perfectly run in hidpi mode. For me it was strange that WINDOWS version can not.
text in SAP GUI for Java is taking advantage of Retina on Mac on the old Apple JVM (1.6). Java 7 from Oracle does not support optimized rendering for retina. The latest Early Access version of Java 8 comes with support for retina and text in SAP GUI for Java looks great. It is planned to support Java 8 with SAP GUI for Java 7.40.
The same is true for desktop monitors - some of them have 4K resolutions.
Nevertheless nothing changed in SAPGUI with regard to support such resolutions. Working with SAP applications on high-end laptops and high-end displays is awfully unpleasant. SAP screens are either blurry (when 200% scaling is enabled in Windows) or way too small (when native resolution without scaling is used).
But 2880x1800 screen working in high-dpi mode provides very "real" logical screen size of only 1440x900 dots! So no one is asking to redraw all dynpro to accomodate high resolutions.
The things which are really needed from next release of SAP GUI: high-dpi (double resolution) icons, same textures and high-dpi aware fonts rendering.
Hope SAP can solve this with either patch for GUI 7.30 or in upcoming 7.40.
Finally! SAP Note 2022335 says, that 7.40 now supports DPI scaling/awareness.
Pity though, my new corporate DELL notebook screen is so poor in comparison to my own MacBook w/Retina (and BYOD for notebooks is not allowed), that I can't even check how this works on high res screens.
The problem is solved in 7.40 starting from Patch level 2 as written in the 2022335 Note.
Base 7.40 Patch 0 doesn't work well on MacBook. I have currently installed the last available now Patch 4 and it seems to be working pretty fine (acceptable at least) on my MacBook Pro 15'' with Retina.
After one day of using SAP GUI 7.4 Patch 4 on my Retina Macbook I have to say with huge regret that I hate it. Blinking screens, buggy AltTabbing and lots of other glitches.
I have no other choice than to return to my old PC.
I can only hope the day will come when SAP finally hires a strong programmers team to solve this shameful issue.
With several limitations we face with SAP GUI on Mac, it is still feasible for MacBook users to have bootcamp. It not only brings ability to use native GUI with all of its bells and whistles, but also Windows versions of MS Office/Excel (which means BEx) and some graphical elements, which are ActiveX based.
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