use java7 instead of java8 was: The app is unusable on Windows 7 because of font issues

[paulvi]

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I could not even connect to DB, it is torture just to enter DB server

[paulvi]

I could not see port 27017, it was always corrupted letters.

[agirbal]

Ok that is surprising.. Which Java version do you have installed? Have you upgraded to the latest Oracle version? Can you try to go to tools/preferences/advanced and unclick "use native look" and then restart the app. thanks

[paulvi]

I discovered that I have Java 8 on my PATH

java -version java version "1.8.0-ea" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b109) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b51, mixed mode)

How to specify what java version to use?

[agirbal]

If you have a terminal and a path to another jvm, you can run this line from the umongo folder:

pathtojvm/bin/java -jar umongo.jar

I will try out with Java 8, hopefully they didnt break something again... Btw how does it look with "use native look and feel" off?

[paulvi]

OK, now with start-umongo.bat like

start "Umongo" "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_11\bin\java" -jar umongo.jar

I can run and even see runtime errors in console window.

[agirbal]

so are you saying it works fine with 1.7 but text is garbled with 1.8? that would be sad :(

[paulvi]

Yes, 1.8 spoils fonts. As 1.8 is not yet final, it may change in the future.