Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Change output font in NetBeans

In the new NetBeans 6.7 we can easily change the font of the output window. We must right-click in the output window and we get a popup menu. We select the option Choose Font... and we get a dialog window where we can choose the font for the output window.

Changing the size of the font is also very easy. If we right-click in the output window we get a popup menu with the options Larger Font and Smaller Font. The default shortcut keys in Windows are Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus. So if we have a lot of text in the output window and we have good eyes we can make the font really small to get it all in one output window.

4 comments:

Joe G said...

This option to change the font in the output window is very useful. Do you know of a way to change the fonts in the Projects dialog tree and Navigator window? Thanks

mrhaki said...

@Joe G I'm sorry, but I don't know how to change those fonts from the IDE.

Anonymous said...

I have NetBeans 6.7.1 on Windows XP< but i have not menu item "Choose Font..." in this location

mrhaki said...

@Anonymous: If you have Wrap Text on you cannot change the font. So if you turn off Wrap Text (in Windows Ctrl+R) you must be able to change the output font.