JDK-8328164 : Provide monospace font option for PassFailJFrame instructions
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Priority: P5
  • Status: Open
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Submitted: 2024-03-14
  • Updated: 2024-09-20
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JDK-8293830 - ☂ Redesign Manual Test Framework
Description
The test instructions often include numbered steps, to align the text people often add spaces. Yet when a proportional font is used, it's hard to align. In such cases, switching to using monospace font could allow aligning the text precisely.
Comments
[~jdv] According to OpenJDK Developers' Guide, “For enhancements the Affects Version should be empty unless you feel that it is only relevant to a particular release family, and should not go into a future mainline release.” https://openjdk.org/guide/#triaging-an-issue — I didn't find a way to link to that specific section. PassFailJFrame is backported up to Java 8, so it's applicable to all the LTS families. I expect this enhancement will be backported when it's implemented.
14-03-2024
HTML works well for large instructions and allows using rich formatting, however, I admit HTML is more tedious to craft than plain text.
14-03-2024
This is a good RFE to have when we add manual tests with large instructions.
14-03-2024