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Jon Harman-3

Any way to make a tiny ImageJ bigger?

Hi,
I just got a new laptop with 3200 pixels across a 13" screen. ImageJ is
about the size of a postage stamp on that screen. Any way to make it
bigger?
By the way on Windows 8.1 I needed to install ImageJ somewhere else than
in Program Files.

Jon

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Michael Schmid

Re: Any way to make a tiny ImageJ bigger?

Hi Jon,

you can set the menu font size in Edit>Options>Appearance (except on Mac
OS X; requires to restart ImageJ).

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-27.html#toc-Subsubsection-27.13.10

I am not aware of other ways to modify the size of the graphic user
interface (gui) elements. With today's screen widths between 800 and 3200
pxls, it would be a nice feature, I agree.

Michael
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On Sun, January 12, 2014 03:37, Jon Harman wrote:
> Hi,
> I just got a new laptop with 3200 pixels across a 13" screen. ImageJ is
> about the size of a postage stamp on that screen. Any way to make it
> bigger?
> By the way on Windows 8.1 I needed to install ImageJ somewhere else than
> in Program Files.
>
> Jon

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Jon Harman-3

Re: Any way to make a tiny ImageJ bigger?

Hi,
The enclosing rectangle does not change size so as you increase font
size the menu crowds out everything else. I suppose you could scale the
rectangle with the font size, but that still would not fix the size of
the tools.

Jon

On 1/12/2014 7:25 AM, Michael Schmid wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> you can set the menu font size in Edit>Options>Appearance (except on Mac
> OS X; requires to restart ImageJ).
>
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-27.html#toc-Subsubsection-27.13.10
>
> I am not aware of other ways to modify the size of the graphic user
> interface (gui) elements. With today's screen widths between 800 and 3200
> pxls, it would be a nice feature, I agree.
>
> Michael
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> On Sun, January 12, 2014 03:37, Jon Harman wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just got a new laptop with 3200 pixels across a 13" screen. ImageJ is
>> about the size of a postage stamp on that screen. Any way to make it
>> bigger?
>> By the way on Windows 8.1 I needed to install ImageJ somewhere else than
>> in Program Files.
>>
>> Jon
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Jon Harman-3

Re: Any way to make a tiny ImageJ bigger?

In reply to this post by Michael Schmid

Hi,
On my web site I have ImageJ setup as an applet. In testing on my new
Windows 8.1 laptop I have noticed that the applet ImageJ is the same
small size in most browsers, but not in Chrome! In Chrome it is a
decent size as are the dialogs, etc.

Anyone know why Chrome is different? This encourages me that there is
some easy solution.

By the way I notice that in Windows 7 I can increase the menu fonts
without the menu crowding out the other interface. It looks like Java
detects that the menu size is too big and resizes them. In windows 8.1
this does not happen, the menus increase in size and crowd out the tools.

Jon

On 1/12/2014 7:25 AM, Michael Schmid wrote:

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Jon Harman-3

Re: Any way to make a tiny ImageJ bigger?

In reply to this post by Michael Schmid

Hi,
Some more info on high dpi from the author of this blog
http://kynosarges.org/GuiDpiScaling.html

here is the contents of an email he sent me:

I'm assuming that you're talking about this ImageJ?
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
I've never used it but sure, that's an old Swing UI that normally
wouldn't scale at all.

Scaling in Chrome unfortunately does not mean that an easy solution
exists. Rather, it seems the Chrome browser shares the display scaling
capabilities of ChromeOS which Google added to make high-resolution
Chromebooks work. That would mean Chrome itself performs display
scaling, rather than leaving the job to Windows.

Java apps always declare themselves DPI-aware even if they're not, and
that disables all Windows DPI scaling. Annoyingly there's no user
workaround for that. The developers need to fix the app, by adding
explicit scaling to all coordinates. Meanwhile, all I can recommend is
that you continue to run the applet in Chrome. Sorry!

Jon

>> On Sun, January 12, 2014 03:37, Jon Harman wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I just got a new laptop with 3200 pixels across a 13" screen. ImageJ is
>>> about the size of a postage stamp on that screen. Any way to make it
>>> bigger?
>>> By the way on Windows 8.1 I needed to install ImageJ somewhere else than
>>> in Program Files.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>
>On 1/12/2014 7:25 AM, Michael Schmid wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> you can set the menu font size in Edit>Options>Appearance (except on Mac
> OS X; requires to restart ImageJ).
>
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-27.html#toc-Subsubsection-27.13.10
>
> I am not aware of other ways to modify the size of the graphic user
> interface (gui) elements. With today's screen widths between 800 and 3200
> pxls, it would be a nice feature, I agree.
>
> Michael
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> On Sun, January 12, 2014 03:37, Jon Harman wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just got a new laptop with 3200 pixels across a 13" screen. ImageJ is
>> about the size of a postage stamp on that screen. Any way to make it
>> bigger?
>> By the way on Windows 8.1 I needed to install ImageJ somewhere else than
>> in Program Files.
>>
>> Jon
>
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