> Perhaps we should detect people running Java 8 on Windows systems with HiDPI enabled, and show a warning in this case.
Yes, sounds like a good notification to show users. --emi lun., 16 mar. 2020, 17:28 Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> a scris: > I did a little debugging off-list with Jonathan--the problem was running > NetBeans on Java 8. > > > > For proper HiDPI support on Windows 10, the IDE should be run on at least > Java 9--preferably a more recent version. This solved the problem. > > > > There was indeed szome changes in this area in 11.3, but they are bugfixes > which, assuming the user is running a Java version that supports HiDPI, > should make things better, not works: > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1777 > > > > Perhaps we should detect people running Java 8 on Windows systems with > HiDPI enabled, and show a warning in this case. > > > > -- Eirik > > > > *From:* Jonathan Mills <jonathan.n.mi...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:03 AM > *To:* Jean-Claude Dauphin <jc.daup...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* users@netbeans.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: 11.3 - font size much smaller > > > > Thanks for the suggestion Jean-Claude. As you say this changes the other > fonts. > > Jonathan > > On 15/03/2020 13:48, Jean-Claude Dauphin wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > I had the same problem and solved the issue as follow: > > I edited the netbeans.conf file, which is in the /etc subdirectory of > NetBeans installation and added > > netbeans_default_options="--fontsize 24 ...... > > > > Hope it helps, > > Best wishes > > > > Jean-Claude > > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 11:31 PM Jonathan Mills < > jonathan.n.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I switched from 11.2 to 11.3 on Windows 10, and my font size is much > much smaller. So small I can hardly read it. > > With 11.2 if I fullsized the window I get 39 lines of code displayed in > the editor (and legible) > > With 11.3 it's 84 lines, and too small to read comfortably! > > I'm guessing something has changed in this release to make it ignore the > Windows' Display Setting "Scale", but I can't see a setting to > manipulate the size? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > -- > > Jean-Claude Dauphin > > jc.daup...@gmail.com > > https://github.com/J-ISIS > > > > http://www.greenstone.org > > >
