Re: Question: Gui Looks Different



On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:38:36 -0500, Ken Browning
<kenbrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

On the system (a desktop with CRT) where the code was
developed the GUI looks normal. If I run the same code on my laptop,
the app still runs but the GUI is not drawn correctly.

I trust you used a layout, not absolute positioning.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/layout.html

If you didn't, you are coding for only one machine.

Does one of the machines have a larger default font configured?. This
can confuse.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ruler.html
to get a Mioplanet software ruler to measure the heights and widths of
various things in pixels to see exactly what is wrong.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
.



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