Windows Magnifier does not work with my Swing applications

[Philip Race]

Perhaps .. if it is an easy fix but I do not know the specifics and the 
evaluator of that bug wrote
"the magnifier cannot receive PropertyChangeEvents from Swing. This is a 
limitation in the Window magnifier.
The Windows magnifier could be modified by Microsoft to receive such 
events but the work would need to be done by Microsoft."

then went on to add that other magnifiers do work ..

I also don't know how tied in this would be to implementing support for 
the Windows Accessibility API.

Swing apps today use something called JavaAccessBridge and there are 
screen readers out there that support it.

It would be good to have another look at this specific issue, but I 
can't make any promises.

-phil.

On 12/15/24 1:04 PM, David Alayachew wrote:
> Hello Client Libs Dev Team,
>
> My eyesite has started to deteriorate significantly, so I have been 
> using the built-in Accessibility tool called Windows (Screen) 
> Magnifier (available since Windows XP at least). It zooms in and out 
> of the screen by pressing the Windows Key and (+) or (-).
>
> This works great because, as I type stuff, the magnifier will follow 
> my text, so that I don't have to keep manually moving the magnifier 
> whenever what I type inevitably ends up off-screen (off-view?).
>
> This feature works great for basically every other application I have, 
> except my Swing apps. I make a lot of Swing apps, and I use a bunch 
> too. And this Magnifier feature that follows text does not work for 
> any of the ones I have tried.
>
> This feature does work on basically every other application I have. To 
> name a few.
>
> * Notepad++
> * WordPad
> * Firefox
> * Git Bash
>
> Here is a Bug Report referring to this problem.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-5079680
>
> The resolution was listed as "Future Project". Any chance that the 
> future can be now?
>
> I know that Swing is largely in maintenance mode, but if this were to 
> get added, practically ALL Swing apps would receive a significant 
> boost in accessibility. I think that's worth making some significant 
> changes for.
>
> Finally, here is a StackOverflow post I made discussing the same subject.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79281778
>
> Thank you for your time.
> David Alayachew
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