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Re: more porting issues to Java 11

From	Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: more porting issues to Java 11
Date	2019-05-06 11:25 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<qapn5j$b4i$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 5/4/2019 16:58, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Knute Johnson <groups@585ranch.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 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.
> 
> Ouch, that makes it seem pretty unlikely that the visual bugs would
> get fixed any time soon :-(
> 
> But thanks for the information.
> 
>> It is really a big improvement for high dpi screens.
> 
> I'd wholeheartedly agree, if it weren't for the pixel bugs.
> 
> 
> I'd really appreciate some triaging help per email or here - either
> about you seeing problems in this or other setups, or about you not
> seeing problems despite similar setup. "Problems" means for example,
> that if another window is moved over the jdk11 app, or even just a
> combo/dropdown box or popup window closing (and thereby unobscuring
> only parts of the jdk-11 window), then some spurious lines remain
> visible.
> 
> Myself, I see it on my two-heads setup, each 1280x1024 (apparrently
> no high-dpi) scaled at 125% "default" and a colleague's machine (likely
> same scaling, but didn't yet think of checking his scaling those few
> days ago).  Both machines run Windows 7.  No other applications show
> these symptoms, not even those that also adhere to the scaling).
> 

I'm happy to help you out with that.  Can you make an SSCCE that 
demonstrates the problem?  I know that mixing AWT and Swing components 
can get tricky.

If you want to email,  knute 2019 at 585 ranch dot com

-- 

Knute Johnson

Thread

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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