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On 2/2/2012 1:09 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> list.setFont(list.getFont().deriveFont(16.0f));

setFont is a JComponent method.  I wonder if the JList needs to be 
informed somehow that its font has change?  May need to poke around 
under the code a bit to figure out how the view window is being 
calcualted to understand what might not get updated.

If nothing else, try a revalidate(); that causes the LayoutManager to 
get involved, which may be what you want.