B4J Question Forms with different Windows version's.

[Swissmade]

Hi all,

Building Forms with Scene Builder 2 creates very nice forms.
Now there is a problem.
In Windows 7-8 and Classic theme you get the form's you have designed.
If you use an other theme like Windows 7 Basic the form's are getting mis-formed.
Font-size are not the same with as result all node's are bigger then you have designed.
Layouts are changing.

Have anybody any idea how to solve this.

Thanks for help.

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that you are using Java 8 on all computers?

 

[Swissmade]

Are you sure that you are using Java 8 on all computers?

Everywhere I use Java 8 latest version 8.31
On Windows 7 and 8 I have seen this issue.
Change on windows 7 the theme to Windows Classic has solved this.
But some customers go to change this with as result of bad forms.

With all forms I add a Stylesheet what is helping a little.

MainForm.Stylesheets.Add(File.GetUri(File.DirAssets, "modena.css"))

 

[Swissmade]

Any Idea somebody.

 

[Erel]

I don't think that there is anything you can do about it.

 

[Swissmade]

Thanks Erel

 

[inakigarm]

Find a couple of interesting links about this (don't know how much difficult can be have some tweaking about with B4J):

http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2009/02/windows_java_tip_how_control_window_decorations
http://news.kynosarges.org/2013/08/09/javafx-dpi-scaling/

 

[Swissmade]

Find a couple of interesting links about this (don't know how much difficult can be have some tweaking about with B4J):

Will Try,
many thanks for this

 

[Peter Simpson]

Find a couple of interesting links about this (don't know how much difficult can be have some tweaking about with B4J):

http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2009/02/windows_java_tip_how_control_window_decorations
http://news.kynosarges.org/2013/08/09/javafx-dpi-scaling/

Great finds @inakigarm, I'l have to try to remember these (shortcut them in my browser), I'm sure that the links will come in handy one day ...

 

[Swissmade]

I'm sure that the links will come in handy one day .

Thanks for this.

 

[Swissmade]

(SOLVED)
To get this right you can do the follow.
In Scene builder fix all your Controls with Anchor Pane Constraints. Left, Right, Top and Bottom.
Or use USE_PREF_SIZE
Load the Css stylesheet modena.css.

    MainForm.Stylesheets.Add(File.GetUri(File.DirAssets, "modena.css"))

Most of the problems solved then.