How to increase font size of autocomplete widget in processing-ide?

Question

I have increased my font-size in processing IDE, but when autocomplete suggestion shows up , the font size is a bit small and I don't find a way to increase it.

Any setting I can change to make autocomplete font larger ?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, based on the source code the code completion list has each item's font hardcoded to sans size 12 at the moment:

setFont(Toolkit.getSansFont(12, Font.PLAIN));

Currently there is no option in the Processing Preferences panel to change the code completion text font size.

You could request this as a feature and hope it will be implemented at some point.

If you need this urgently you might need to clone the repo, implement the change yourself and recompile the editor: bonus points if you open a pull request so it becomes a permanent feature! :

Another pragmatic option might be to use a different editor other than the Processing IDE. (This can be a Java IDE such as Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ/etc. or an editor such as SublimeText/VSCode/Atom etc. in conjuction with the processing-java command line utility. Some of these editors might already have community contributed plugins)