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Font is really small #69

Open KittyChoo opened 7 years ago

KittyChoo commented 7 years ago

Tried both Java 32 and 64 bit, and the older version of Mesquite

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kdbchau commented 7 years ago

I have the same problem - did you find a fix?

KittyChoo commented 7 years ago

Didn't manage to. Used it on Mac instead.

DMaddison commented 7 years ago

With that window at the front, you can choose Edit>Font Size to adjust the font size in this window. If you are concerned about the small size of the menus, that is a bug in Java on Windows, and it is very difficult for us to build a workaround for it.

KittyChoo commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your reply. I did try to increase the font size, but the menu buttons were still very small. Thanks for letting us know it's a bug, at least I know I'll be wasting time trying to mess around to fix it.

kdbchau commented 6 years ago

Still broken.

Injuis commented 6 years ago

Yep. If you browse the code, the menu font size is hard coded to 10 pt! Tiny on anything bigger than 1080p. They could either program a font size changer or implement a dynamic font size based on screen resolution. Something like Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(); double screenWidth = screenSize.getWidth(); setFont(new Font ("SanSerif", Font.PLAIN, Math.max(10, Math.round(screenWidth/100)));

DMaddison commented 6 years ago

@Injuis The menu font size is not hard coded. In fact, I don't think we touch menu font size at all. The font size of many windows (including the one shown in the initial issue post) begins at 10 point, but it user-adjustable. When I last looked into this, this issue of small menus was caused by a bug in Java in Windows, and, at the time, there was no workaround I could find for this.

Injuis commented 6 years ago

Apologies, the line I looked at turned out to have done nothing after compiling the source myself. I was, however, able to change the fonts sizes of the tabs, and submenus, just not the File, Edit, View, and Help menubar items. From what I've read, you'd have to switch to Swing to get that to work.

DMaddison commented 6 years ago

@Injuis Yes, Swing would do it. We probably need to make that change, as Oracle is not putting resources into fixing the many AWT bugs. However, that would require a serious chunk of dedicated time, as there is so much AWT code in Mesquite (as we started it well before Swing). I'm hoping to work on that switch this fall, but we shall see...

AEgit commented 6 years ago

Note that Swing is deprecated and is supposed to be replaced by JavaFX.