From 3acc515f8859365e9e3e22555ceeea617239ebe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brutzman <brutzman@nps.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:03:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] continuing High DPI woes under Windows
---
developers.html | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/developers.html b/developers.html
index 85516e98f2..42300eecfc 100644
--- a/developers.html
+++ b/developers.html
@@ -1604,12 +1604,14 @@ need to be connected to the NPS intranet.
locations in the NetBeans installation directory tree:
<br />
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>C:\Program Files\NetBeans-12.6\netbeans\etc\netbeans.conf</b></code> (default user settings)
- <br />
+ <!--
+ <br />
or, for older versions of NetBeans,
<br />
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.2\etc\netbeans.conf</b></code> (default user settings) or
<br />
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>C:\Users\<b>MyName</b>\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.0.2\etc\netbeans.conf</b></code>
+ -->
</li>
<li>
<i>Java version.</i>
@@ -1629,7 +1631,7 @@ need to be connected to the NPS intranet.
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>-J-Djavax.xml.bind.context.factory=com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory</b></code>
</li>
<li>
- <i>Tomcat support under Netbeans 12.6 and OpenJDK 16.</i>
+ <i>Tomcat support under Netbeans 12.6 and OpenJDK 17.0.1.</i>
Append the following property to
<code>netbeans_default_options</code> environment variable:
<br />
@@ -1644,8 +1646,11 @@ need to be connected to the NPS intranet.
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>-J--illegal-access=warn</b></code>
</li>
<li>
+ <!-- not fixed
<i>(Prior problem,
<a href="https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb113/index.html#_hidpi">fixed</a> under NetBeans 11.3)</i>.
+ -->
+ <span style="color:darkorange"><b>Windows recurring problem, workaround failing:</b></span>
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23651486/netbeans-ide-scaling-on-windows-8-10" target="_blank">NetBeans screen scaling on Windows 8/10</a>:
Change parameter in
<code style="color:darkgreen"><b>netbeans.conf</b></code> file:
@@ -1654,7 +1659,9 @@ need to be connected to the NPS intranet.
to
<code>-J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=false</code>
<br />
- Alternatively "Go to the Compatibility tab and then select Change High DPI Settings. From there, check the Override High DPI Scaling box and set it to System."
+ <span style="color:darkgreen"><b>Alternative tested satisfactorily:</b></span>
+ <br />
+ "Go to the Compatibility tab and then select Change High DPI Settings. From there, check the Override High DPI Scaling box and set it to System."
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