Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Scaling java app Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:44:48 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35929 On 11/21/2016 10:12 PM, Knute Johnson wrote: > On 11/21/2016 6:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 11/21/2016 12:06 PM, Knute Johnson wrote: >>> I've got a new Windows 10 laptop that has a 3200x1800 pixel display. >>> It's really nice but my Java application is now so small I can't see it >>> (not that it wasn't getting hard anyway :-). >> >> You can easily scale the entire window after the screen size. >> >> And most parts would scale with the window. >> >> It is text that is causing you problems? > > The fonts are really small but that can be fixed pretty easily. It's > the frame and dialogs that are really small that can't easily be > corrected. Using the windows system laf helps some but you still have > to adjust the font sizes. I actually surprised there isn't some way to > do it automatically with the Nimbus laf but there apparently isn't. If you set the font size, use layout manager and do a pack wouldn't everything scale? I think I am missing something. Arne