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display problem March 10, 2016 1:18AM UTC
James Harrell 3 Posts	I just purchased a new Dell XPS 15 with ultra high resolution touch screen using windows 8. The tracker text almost too small to read. Doesn't seem to matter what screen resolution setting I use. Works fine on my older Dell windows 7 laptop. Login to reply

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Re: display problem - Mar 10 5:34PM UTC
Douglas Brown 459 Posts	Try increasing the font level in the Edit\|Font Level menu. When you find the level that works best for your resolution, you can set a preferred font level in the preferences dialog Display tab (Edit\|Preferences menu). Doug > Re: display problem > > I just purchased a new Dell XPS 15 with ultra high > resolution touch screen using windows 8. The tracker > text almost too small to read. Doesn't seem to matter > what screen resolution setting I use. Works fine > on my older Dell windows 7 laptop. Login to reply \| Condense

Re: Re: display problem - Mar 10 9:15PM UTC
James Harrell 3 Posts	Thanks for the suggestion. It works, but I can't save the settings. I must reset each time I open Tracker. But still, it works. Login to reply \| Condense

Re: Re: Re: display problem - Mar 12 2:13PM UTC
Douglas Brown 459 Posts	James, can you give me some info about your setup? 1. what Tracker version and OS are you using? 2. What Java VM are you using? (to find this, choose Help\|Diagnostics\|About Java) 3. Where are your starter preferences being loaded from? (to find this, choose Help\|Diagnostics\|Start Log and look for a line like "loading starter preferences from: C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Local\OSP\tracker.prefs") 4. Where are your Tracker preferences being loaded from? (To find this, choose Help\|Diagnostics\|Message Log and look for a line like "INFO: preferences loaded from C:/Users/Doug/AppData/Local/OSP/tracker.prefs") 5. Are there lines in the preferences file like "1" and "0" (to find this, choose Help\|Diagnostics\|Preferences File) Thanks! Doug > Re: Re: Re: display problem > > Thanks for the suggestion. It works, but I can't > save the settings. I must reset each time I open > Tracker. But still, it works. Login to reply \| Condense

Re: Re: Re: Re: display problem - Mar 12 3:58PM UTC

James Harrell
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Doug - Here is the info you requested.  Initially had Win 8.1, but upgraded to Win 10.

JWH

1. Tracker version 4.92, Windows 10
2. Java version 1.8.0_73 (32-bit)
Java ™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_73-b02)
Java HotSpot ™ Client VM (build 25.73-b02)
JRE path:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_73
3. - loading starter preferences from: C:\Users\jharrell\.tracker.prefs
4. INFO: preferences loaded from C:/Users/jharrell/.tracker.prefs
5.
<object class="org.opensourcephysics.cabrillo.tracker.Tracker$Preferences">
    tracker.jar
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_73
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_73
    true
    3
    2
    C:\Users\jharrell\AppData\Local\OSP\Cache
    0
    1457579845
    C:/Users/jharrell/Documents/Tracker/experiments
    Xuggle

        C:/Users/jharrell/Documents/Tracker/experiments/bouncing_cart.trk
        C:/Users/jharrell/Documents/Tracker/experiments/ball_oil.trk
        C:/Users/jharrell/Documents/Tracker/experiments/BallToss.trk

</object>

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Re: Re: Re: Re: display problem - Mar 12 6:58PM UTC
Douglas Brown 459 Posts	Hi James--thanks for the info. Sure enough there is a bug that prevents Tracker from using a preferred font level higher than 3 :-( I will make sure that is fixed in the next release. I appreciate your bringing this bug to my attention! regards, Doug > > > Re: Re: Re: display problem > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. It works, but I can' > > > save the settings. I must reset each time I ope > > > Tracker. But still, it works. Login to reply \| Condense