Text is so smal that I'm unable to read it. Application not reespect Windows setting which is set to use 200% zoom. I have Lenovo T540p with screen size 15,6" and resolution 2880 × 1620 px.
Yeah, it does not respect OS's text size and similar stuff. It's 10+ year old Java Swing, which existed already in Java 1.3.
I found some web pages that can provide at least somewhat of a workaround - adding some properties to the way how java is called. But that works only locally (not webstart).
So you would need to download the files and run them locally (instead of clicking the icon on the homepage).
Download the zip file of latest release, and unpack it somewhere. **)
Then edit the file "run.bat" and insert this right after the "java " part:
And then start the application by clicking run.bat.
**) BUT:
At the moment there is probably no zip file with really all newest features, only the webstart on the homepage is super new. Have not done recently any "official" release for certain reasons...
But you can download an old zip, unpack it, and then replace the Colossus.jar with the one downloaded from the homepage. For that, go to :
Good news: it can be done in a webstart file. On the homepage, on right side is now a new icon with text "BIG FONT" beside it. Most Menu items etc are then bigger (not in first time when "Game Setup" comes up, but after Game was started).
This works only with the Look & Feel "Metal".
In "Window" Menu => Preferences => "Windows" tab, as "Look & Feel" it offers e.g. me the 4 choices: Metal, Nimbus, CDE/Motif, GTK+.
In case you haven't found it before, at same place you can also scale the "graphical stuff" (board + creature markers, however not the text inside it) ("Windows scale", usually around 14). Increase it and after each increase click Apply.
It's ugly, but I hope that helps.
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Yeah, it does not respect OS's text size and similar stuff. It's 10+ year old Java Swing, which existed already in Java 1.3.
I found some web pages that can provide at least somewhat of a workaround - adding some properties to the way how java is called. But that works only locally (not webstart).
So you would need to download the files and run them locally (instead of clicking the icon on the homepage).
Download the zip file of latest release, and unpack it somewhere. **)
Then edit the file "run.bat" and insert this right after the "java " part:
-Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.plaf.metal.controlFont=Tahoma-20 -Dswing.plaf.metal.userFont=Tahoma-20
And then start the application by clicking run.bat.
**) BUT:
At the moment there is probably no zip file with really all newest features, only the webstart on the homepage is super new. Have not done recently any "official" release for certain reasons...
But you can download an old zip, unpack it, and then replace the Colossus.jar with the one downloaded from the homepage. For that, go to :
http://colossus.sourceforge.net/public-build/Colossus.jar
and save the file to same directory where you unpacked the zip.
Perhaps there is a way to place this into the webstart file, but that will also be quite some work.
Sorry I can't help more at the moment.
PS: we could debate whether that is a bug or a feature request :)
It works! Thank you :)
Good news: it can be done in a webstart file. On the homepage, on right side is now a new icon with text "BIG FONT" beside it. Most Menu items etc are then bigger (not in first time when "Game Setup" comes up, but after Game was started).
This works only with the Look & Feel "Metal".
In "Window" Menu => Preferences => "Windows" tab, as "Look & Feel" it offers e.g. me the 4 choices: Metal, Nimbus, CDE/Motif, GTK+.
In case you haven't found it before, at same place you can also scale the "graphical stuff" (board + creature markers, however not the text inside it) ("Windows scale", usually around 14). Increase it and after each increase click Apply.
It's ugly, but I hope that helps.
Which one works - the "edit file" or the "use the different" icon solution? Or both?