High DPI support for UI

Question

While the diagrams itself look beautifully at high-pixel-density monitors, the UI elements are small and next to unusable.

See screenshot ( https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2641019/2013Q1/yed-highdpi.png ), especially look at the Properties Window - it's next to unusable.

And while I have quite exotic display device (IBM T221), I believe soon there will be lots of high-density monitors, as 13'' and even 11'' full HD tablets/laptops are now flooding the market, popularized by Apple's "retina display".

Answer 1

HI, thanks for pointing out that issue. We haven't been aware that this is a problem.

Comments

Thanks in advance - looking forward for the next yEd update :)

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This is still a problem in 2016. Now most of the Notebooks have Hi-DPI/retina displays, all major operating systems set high DPI values. I know this is problem in Java UI but other applications (Eclipse, IntelliJ, ...) did manage to achieve it. In a tool like yed I think this support is even more critical.
I'm on Linux, GNOME3. HiDPI-Scaling set to 2x. Most/99% of the applications scale well, yed does not.

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This should be one of the next improvements to be made to yEd.
I am running 2880x1620 so the effective font size for the menus is close to not readable.

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It's 2017 not and yEd still doesn't support UI scaling. Poor thing.

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According to Java 9 Support, things might improve with the next major Java release.

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I've updated to JRE 9, and indeed the UI scales correctly, but the icons are blurry

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At least on Linux, with JRE 10, it doesn't scale. Thank you!!

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It seems to work with Java 11: https://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/10396/java-9-support?show=14205#c14205

Answer 2

Works great with Oracle Java 11, at least on Kubuntu 18.04 by running it like this:

GDK_SCALE=2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-oracle/bin/java -jar /opt/yEd/yed.jar

Answer adapted from Yala's answer here: https://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/10396/java-9-support?show=14205#c14205