Re: Font display problem on Linux
From: Last2Know (grokkalot_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 -0500
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:19:06 -0400, Joe Beanfish wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:40:39 -0500, Last2Know <grokkalot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:46:05 -0400, Joe Beanfish wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:20:36 +0100, Roger Leigh <${roger}@invalid.whinlatter.uklinux.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> sks@skscci-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (skscci) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I have developed a jbuilder application on a Windows 2000 platform
>>>>> and it works and displays fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a jar file and copied it to my Linux system, and when I
>>>>> run the application, it works fine, but it doesn't display properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The fonts are too large and many of the labels are truncated.
>>>>
>>>> It's probably your problem: have you hardcoded widget sizes and
>>>> positions? If written properly, your interface should resize to
>>>> accomodate text of any size.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I don't think I've seen even one "properly written"
>>> java app on the web. They all render fonts in bad to useless ways.
>>> Including the Java admin tool for my Linux based NAS appliance.
>>
>> A lot of Java GUI stuff is written in a way that doesn't look
>> decent unless the fonts ultimately get mapped to truetype fonts
>> or equivalent. These have to be installed specially for a
>> each JVM installation, because all the good ones are proprietary
>> and can't ship for free with the JVM. Or at least this was
>> situation a few years ago.
>
> I have lots of common true-type fonts installed including all the
> ones that come with Windows. Doesn't help much.
>
> And for Big Brother, Yes I have the right to those Windows supplied
> fonts. They're on the other partition with a purchased copy of Windows.
So when a Java program running on your JVM requests, say, the
"sans serif" font you have that mapped to something like the
Arial truetype font, correct?
> Another fun problem is my credit card provider. They have a little
> java thingy for getting temporary numbers. It displays all fonts
> and widgets ok (they're probably all builtin or bitmaps). But it
> insists on resizing the window with every operation. The size is
> not even remotely correct. I have to keep resizing the window.
> Java the portable programming environment. What a laugh.
A badly behaved app can be written in any language.
Though overall I agree that the GUI libs are the worst
aspect of Java.
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