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Re: more porting issues to Java 11

From Knute Johnson <groups@585ranch.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: more porting issues to Java 11
Date 2019-05-04 11:24 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/3/2019 8:10 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
>> The application uses awt & swing components for the GUI, and all
>> windows look distorted, fonts are a bit larger, even images look
>> a bit stretched and moving another window over the jdk 11 application
>> window leaves behind some spurious lines, as if the refresh had off-
>> by-one-pixel inaccuracies.
> 
> It's not yet solved, but I could narrow it down to what system setting
> triggers it:
> 
> In the settings dialog for "Screen Resolution", there is an option
> labelled "Make text and other items larger or smaller", which on my
> desktop was set to 125%.
> 
> Java up to 8 totally ignored that setting.
> Java 11 tries to follow it (which is arguably an improvement), but
>     does so in a somewhat broken way.
> 

I think that change actually came with Java 9.  It is really a big 
improvement for high dpi screens.

k

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more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-03 17:21 +0000
  Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-03 14:28 -0400
    Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-03 14:32 -0400
      Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-04 12:52 +0000
        Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-04 14:11 +0000
          Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-04 20:08 -0400
  Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-03 14:37 -0400
    Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-04 13:04 +0000
      Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-04 20:22 -0400
        Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-08 16:40 +0000
          Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-08 17:14 +0000
            Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-10 18:08 +0000
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-10 18:32 +0000
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2019-04-11 11:05 +0200
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-29 08:23 +0000
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-12 10:08 -0400
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 07:35 -0700
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-29 08:39 +0000
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-05-03 13:10 +0000
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Knute Johnson <groups@585ranch.com> - 2019-05-04 11:24 -0500
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-05-04 21:58 +0000
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2019-05-06 11:25 -0500
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-05-29 12:20 +0000
                Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2020-01-30 15:07 +0000
          Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-08 18:41 -0400
            Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2019-04-10 15:46 +0200
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-10 12:31 -0400
            Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-10 18:13 +0000
              Re: more porting issues to Java 11 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-13 20:39 -0400

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