Changing the game log text font in 3.0?

I agree completely with this. The default font is WAAAYYY to big.

Kizan

 

Yes, unfortunately, this is not good. Not sure about everyone else, but I keep my Game Log window fairly small on the screen to be able to have more real estate and the font is distracting to say the least. My group is still missing the DFoW and Vision/Light features of Map tools and getting antsier by the session. I know the team is getting it together and want it to be good...I can live with that...Just sucks waiting for it to hit.

Val

 

I haven't downloaded v3.0 yet. Would someone mind posting an image showing this gargantuan font size that everyone's complaining about? I'm curious just how it looks before I upgrade. (Upgrading the whole group is not a fun experience, let me tell you.)

 

I think it's kind of a subjective thing. I've only played one session under 3.0, but it didn't take long to get used to the font size really. Speaking for myself, I'm fine with it, but having an adjustment option availble would be good as well.

 

Thanks for doing that, Curtis! The font does seem pretty big. It sticks out because it's like twice as big as anything else in the program. I don't think it would really bother me that much, though.

 

The ONLY reason I complain is that ALL child windows MUST be inside the parent d20Pro window. If I could pull the child windows off to another monitor I wouldn't care nearly as much. I might even like the enlarged font (although it really should be something that is user configurable). This topic is only an issue because screen real estate is at such a premium.

Kizan

 

That would be awesome, if child windows could be dragged to other monitors.

Val

 

So today I decompiled d20Pro and came up with a fix. The basic contours are:

1. Find and unzip d20Pro.jar.
2. Open com/mindgene/d20/laf.xml.
3. On lines 902 and 907, change "size=18" to "size=12" (or whatever other size you want).
4. From the root of your unzipped d20Pro.jar (i.e., the folder containing bootstrap/, com/, etc.), run this command:

Code:

jar uf /path/to/d20Pro.jar com/mindgene/d20/laf.xml

And that's it. If you're using OS X or Linux, I've written a script to do this for you, which you can download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?birrdavgbfo3569. The download contains a README with instructions on running and undoing the script. If you're on Windows, I'll probably upload a .BAT file in the next few days if no one beats me to it.

Naturally I take no responsibility if anything horrible happens to you while attempting to follow these instructions.

 

And if you're wondering, "Can I do all sorts of weird stuff to d20Pro in this manner?", the answer is yes, you can do all sorts of weird stuff to d20Pro in this manner.

 

It's really cool that you got that figured out, but I don't feel comfortable messing that deep in the program files, and I'm a Win XP user, so I can't use the script you wrote.

Still, thanks for figuring that out, I'm sure lots of people will find it useful.

 

I can't find the D20Pro.jar file. I looked in the install directory and its not there. I also did a search of the entire computer and can't find this file. Can you tell me exactly where the file is located?

-Car

 

I found the d20pro.jar file (Contents/Resources/Java/d20pro.jar) but after unzipping it, I can't find the laf.xml file in the location you specified.

 

If you're on Windows it may be called "d20Pro.dat", and it should be in \Program Files\Mindgene\d20Pro\, if I remember correctly.

I'm not sure what would explain that. Were you able to find the specified folder (com/mindgene/d20)?

 

Thanks, I was able to edit the dat file and change the font size.

-Car

 

Yes, but the laf.xml file wasn't in that folder. There were five other folders and a bunch of .class files.

 

Actually, you can disregard my idiocy. I just realized I was looking in my old v2.3 copy of d20pro instead of v3.0. Duh!

 

Excellent, glad you both got sorted out.

To anyone waiting on a Windows script, I'll try to get to it today.