Windows Magnifier does not work with my Swing applications

[David Alayachew]

Thanks Phil.

Yeah, I am A-OK as long as this something that is looked into and the JBS
Bug Report is updated with the findings. If this isn't too bad, this would
be a solid inclusion. But if it's not worth the effort, I just want the JBS
to be updated, and then I can put that as an answer for my StackOverflow
post.

Thanks again for taking a look into this.

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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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