Running NexJ Studio on a high res monitor

2nd March 2017

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I’ve recently updated my machine and am running monitors in pretty high res. If you are reading this in a year or two you will likely yawn, but for today 3,840 x 2160 is pretty high.

NexJ Studio (Eclipse) renders icons and menus too small to be usable in this resolution. To fix this, do the following.

Create a file called nexjstudio.exe.manifest with the following contents, and put it in your NexJ Studio install folder alongside nexjstudio.exe.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <description>eclipse</description>
    <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
        <security>
            <requestedPrivileges>
                <requestedExecutionLevel xmlns:ms_asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"
                               level="asInvoker"
                               ms_asmv3:uiAccess="false">
                </requestedExecutionLevel>
            </requestedPrivileges>
        </security>
    </trustInfo>
    <asmv3:application>
        <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">
            <ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware>
        </asmv3:windowsSettings>
    </asmv3:application>
</assembly>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<description>eclipse</description>

<requestedExecutionLevel xmlns:ms_asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"

level="asInvoker"

ms_asmv3:uiAccess="false">

</requestedExecutionLevel>

</requestedPrivileges>

</security>

</trustInfo>

<asmv3:application>

<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">

<ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware>

</asmv3:windowsSettings>

</asmv3:application>

</assembly>

Create the following entry in your Windows registry.

Launch Windows regedit app

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\
From the right side of the Registry Editor, right click the mouse and select New/DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Set the name of the new value to PreferExternalManifest, with value of 1

Restart Eclipse and it should render nicely.

Thanks,

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