<AWT Dev> [8u] Review request for 8157838 Personalized Windows Font Size is not taken into account in Java8u102

[Phil Race]

But my point is that on Windows 8.1 the "125%" font setting is no longer 
a font setting as such.
Either the *whole* app gets scaled, or *nothing* get scaled, so the user 
complaining about
this bug would not have seen his request honoured in the same way as is 
on Windows 7.

Or is setting dpiaware causing us to continue to get "XP Style" scaling 
as it is known.

Disabling that manifest entry and reverting to using API is something we 
should also be considering
but I don't know that this bug is the place to address that change which 
may cause more problems
as well as fix some ..

-phil.

On 05/27/2016 11:14 AM, Alexandr Scherbatiy wrote:
> On 5/27/2016 8:14 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>
>> From what I read on the web Windows Vista, 7, and 8, Windows uses 
>> this setting to scale just
>> the fonts, but for 8.1 and 10 it is a whole application scale, so 
>> perhaps rather than just
>> revert the fix, you can make it OS version dependent ?
>
>   To allow the Windows OS scale a java application we need to revert 
> the fix which sets dpiAvare=true in the java.manifest file. See 
> JDK-8080153 Cannot disable DPI awareness.
>
>   Thanks,
>   Alexandr.
>>
>> Surface Pro devices are not going to be running Vista or 7 .. and I 
>> expect most are running
>> Windows 8.1 or later by now.
>>
>>
>> Of course you will need to find a way to test this hypothesis : 
>> probably on a windows 10
>> desktop with 125% scaling to see what happens with the Win L&F.
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>>
>> On 05/27/2016 09:44 AM, Alexandr Scherbatiy wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could you review the fix:
>>>   bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8157838
>>>   webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/8157838/webrev.00
>>>
>>>   This is the regression from the fix JDK-8076545 in the JDK 8u.
>>>   There was a request JDK-8152980 to backport the fix to JDK 8u 
>>> because a text size is very big on Windows 10 with UI scaling set to 
>>> 300% when the Windows L&F is used.
>>>
>>>   However, this leads to another issue that a personalized Windows 
>>> font size is not taken into account in Swing app with Windows L&F on 
>>> JDK 8u.
>>>
>>>   JDK 9 does not run into this issue because it contains support for 
>>> HiDPI displays which reads the system DPI and scales a whole 
>>> application with fonts according to system UI scale.
>>>
>>>   The proposed solution is just to revert back the initial 
>>> JDK-8076545 fix for JDK 8u only.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexandr.
>>>
>>
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