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from Dr. R.

Variable being stored to is int n; should use &n instead of &d.

Reported by Dr. R.

NOTE: There was a typo in the commit messages. This was closed by 4c69d3d, not d6c239b.

need to recover these from Word document

(Mentioned in programmer's manual as a future improvement idea/reason to use switch from Swing to a more modern GUI toolkit.)

Users might be have enabled DPI scaling e.g. on newer computers with high pixel density displays (~150ppi, ~200ppi, or greater, rather than traditional ~100ppi) or to make the screen more readable. Under Java 8, the PPA4C GUI does not appear to automatically enlarge, resize regardless of OS DPI scaling settings.

Running the existing .jar with a prerelease version of Java 9 allows the GUI to automatically resize according to OS settings. If this is still the case when Java 9 is released later this year, hopefully a new .exe download can be created (the existing one only works under Java 8) and this issue can then be closed; I'm currently not inclined to get DPI scaling working under Java 8.

Example tests (Windows 10 x64, 1920x1080 display with DPI set to 150% scaling):

• description (the <code>-formatted stuff is tiny in each case):

using JRE 8u152 b05 x64:

using JRE 9+176 x64:

• exercise (Note that some of the text gets cut off/"clipped" at the ends of lines in the DPI scaled version, possibly due to a bug in Java; though PPA4C is missing some line endings):

using JRE 8u152 b05 x64:

using JRE 9+176 x64:

Convert from Word document and post to wiki

Reflect changes made for #12 (moved "check work" button)

From Dr. R.

Place button at the top rather than at the bottom.

Wow! It turns out people are finding and using PPA4C. I wonder what for?

I received an email, user J F Meza writes in:

A suggestion for your ppa4c app, please add save pseudocode and c in text format

If the Exercise.splitPane is moved to grow the area in pseudocodeEditorPane, then the area does not shrink if the splitPane is moved back, and the scrollbar acts over more area.

Known issue with JEditorPane + JScrollPane + JSplitPane + {whichever layout manager is in charge}?

Before:

After:

Q: Lots of stuff never made it to the user's manual…what to do?

A: I uploaded the programmer's and user's manuals mainly to try out the GitHub Wiki feature and various docx-to-markdown converters, and see what kinds of issues would occur; i.e. it was a learning experience. At least there's still the outline of what was supposed to go there. I'm not sure I'll ever finish it, though.