Hi, can you say what operating system / version etc. you are using which has
this issue?
-Marshall
On 3/24/2012 4:59 PM, Eric Buist wrote:
Hi,
I am facing this problem more and more often and now it is too much. Each time
I install a new software tool with a GUI, I am stuck with tiny font sizes and
no workaround. This is now happening to me with the Document Analysis tool of
UIMA. I searched a long long time about the topic of increasing font size of
Swing applications, and the requirement is to pull the app apart and change
the source code at many places, customizing how each and every control is
instantiated! This is just total madness.
The problem is that the UIMA tutorial relies on this GUI tool, not proposing
any fallback such as a text-mode alternative or API calls that would allow to
process documents and format the annotated JCASes. I am thus blocked until I
google around and copy/paste hundreds of lines of codes to get a working basic
text-mode document analysis tool.
My system font is correct and a bunch of applications such as the terminal
emulator, Eclipse, Emacs, Google Chrome, Thunderbird, etc., have correct font
sizes. But Java Swing applications just ignore system settings.
I tried simple solutions such as switching the default Swing look and feel
from the cross-platform to GTK: no result. It seems the GTK LAF is non-working
in OpenJDK, the only JVM available in Ubuntu repositories since Oracle bought
Sun. I tried to find a way to tune the look and feel: no solution, except
AGAIN changing the source code of the application.
Is there any way around this? Any plan for a text-based document analysis tool
or something using an Eclipse plug-in?
