Re: [ jEdit-users ] Can't change appearance

[Vampire <Va...@jE...>]

Maybe the same issue the other guy had. For him it was also magically
fixed after he really restarted jEdit and not only closed the last
view and reopened it. :-)

2011/7/25 David Aldrich <Dav...@em...>:
> Hi Vampire
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> Thanks for your reply.  Somehow, the Look and Feel has now become the
> Windows one as expected.  I don’t know when the changed setting was actually
> adopted. Maybe after a reboot.
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> Thanks for your help.
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> David
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> From: Vampire [mailto:Va...@jE...]
> Sent: 25 July 2011 14:41
> To: David Aldrich
> Cc: jed...@li...
> Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Can't change appearance
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> Hi David,
>
> maybe this IRC excerpt can help you.
>
> <haole> hello there... i've just installed jedit 4.4 on windows 7 and i
> can't change the look and feel! i change it and when i restart the software,
> the settings sets back to Metal... what could be wrong?
> <@Vampire0> Welcome haole
> <@Vampire0> Hmm, sounds strange
> <@Vampire0> Are there any error messages in the activity log?
> <haole> Vampire0: don't know where it is... lemme look for it
> <haole> i've installed jedit in many other machines and never had this
> problem
> <haole> no errors in activity.log, apparently
> <haole> it looks like the WindowsLookAndFeel is not in my classpath
> <haole> do you know where it is located in the 1.6 jdk?
> <haole> can't seem to google it :(
> <@Vampire0> The Windows LAF should be part of Java itself, so I don't think
> this could be :-/
> <@Vampire0> And neither activity.log shows an error? Not the one before
> restart nor the one after restart?
> <@Vampire0> An restart the activity.log is started afresh and the old one is
> in the settings-backup folder
> <haole> Vampire0: i found an error in activity.log complaining about not
> finding WindowsLookAndFeel
> <haole> sorry... forgot to mention before my last msg
> <@Vampire0> hm
> <haole> my activity.log for a single session where i try to change the
> lookandfeel: http://pastebin.com/Av3yGEiG
> <@Vampire0> what is the message exactly, including stacktrace if available?
> <@Vampire0> And what show the first couple of lines in activity.log?
> <@Vampire0> Hm, really strange
> <@Vampire0> Did you try reinstalling Java?
> <@Vampire0> This really shouldn't happen
> <haole> Vampire0: gonna try to reinstall... might be something messed up
> with this machine
> <@Vampire0> hm, strange
> <@Vampire0> actually the wrong class is searched :-/
> <@Vampire0> javax.swing.plaf.metal.WindowsLookAndFeel is not correct
> <@Vampire0> it should be com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
> <@Vampire0> If you invoke "Utilities -> BeanShell -> Evaluate BeanShell
> Expression..." and enter 'jEdit.getProperty("lookAndFeel")', what does it
> tell you?
> <@Vampire0> haole?
> <@Vampire0> And also in the same dialog:
> <@Vampire0> result = ""; for (lafInfo :
> UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) { result += lafInfo.getClassName() +
> '\n'; } return result;
> <haole> Vampire0: sorry, i was away a little
> <haole> lemme test it
> <haole> i started jedit to test your statement and it worked with the
> windowslookandfeel!!
> <haole> i think i had an instance of java running that was missing things up
> <haole> bizarre
> <haole> i closed the java processes and now it works (?)
> <@Vampire0> btw. haole, you don't need to kill the Java process, if you
> invoke "File -> Exit" aka C+q, then jEdit is closed completely
> <@Vampire0> If you just click the the X button in the upper right corner,
> only the current View is closed, even if it is the last one in case of
> server-mode
> <@Vampire0> then jEdit keeps running in the background to be immediately
> available if you want to reuse it
> <@Vampire0> You can also use the "Quit jEdit Server" entry in the Startmenu
> to quit a jEdit instance, even if it is running without an open view
> currently
>
> Regards
> Vampire
>
> David Aldrich schrieb:
>
> Hi
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>
> Running jEdit 4.4.1.
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> Since upgrading from Win 7 Prof 32-bit to Win 7 Prof 64-bit, jEdit's
> appearance appears to be stuck as 'Metal'.  I cannot change it to 'Windows'.
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> Has anyone come across this problem please?
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> Best regards
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>
>
> David
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