The Tab menu has 6 anomalies compared to other menus

1. It has a different font.
2. The color of the font is different.
3. When a mouse cursor hovers on the Tabs menu, it does not change the color of the background.
4. When the Tabs menu is clicked on, the background of the label changes to dark blue compared to a lighter blue for other menus.
5. When the Tabs menu is clicked on and then the cursor of the mouse is moved off of the menu label, the background color changes back to the normal transparent color (same color as when the menu is un-selected).
6. If IGB is not the main active app, menus would go grey in color, except the Tabs menu.
   This can be seen by opening IGB and scaling it down in size so you can click on the desktop behind it. Once you click on the desktop, the menus should all go grey, however the Tabs menu does not conform to this behavior.

The Tab menu was using a font called Dialog.bold with size 12 and color of (55,55,55) which is a dark grey color
All the other menus are using a font called "Segoe UI" with size 12 and color (0, 0, 0) which is black.

I was able to get the font names for each menu by using the following methods on the menu (JMenu object):
getFont() to get the font name
getFont().getSize() to get the size of the font
getForeground() to get the color of the label

I was able to make it so the Tabs menu matches the others by using the following in WindowServiceDefaultImpl.java:
tabsMenu.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
tabsMenu.setFont(new Font("Segoe UI", Font.PLAIN, 12));

That fixed issues 1 and 2, but the remaining issues still persist. I tried fixing that 3,4,5 as well (which can be seen in my IGBF-2506 branch), but I wasn't successful.

Please see my branch to see and test any (unfinished) changes I made:
https://bitbucket.org/Gchamma/integrated-genome-browser/branch/IGBF-2506

Moving this ticket back to "To Do".

This issue seem to occur just on windows platform. On mac it works fine.

Observations -

1. Default font on windows and mac are different. Maybe we could pre-set it so that it is uniform on all the platforms.
2. Need to implement mouse action for tabs.

Other things need to be investigated.

Also see:

• https://wiki.transvar.org/display/igbman/Tabbed+panels

Since the other menus (File, Edit, Tools, View, Help) are added using MenuBarManager class, and Tabs menu is added using a different logic, to make the font uniform I tried implementing Tabs menu using MenuBarManager. However, this approach involves a lot of code changes which seemed complex and it needs more digging into to be sure if this approach is the right one.

Code is not compiling.
Link : https://bitbucket.org/chirag06/integrated-genome-browser/commits/677e41ab87156f97c08a8798fd0f0bf39b5642ec

For the next step, please submit a PR for Jay's branch. (Add his fork to your local clone as new remote, get his branch, then cherry-pick his single commit onto a new branch on your local. Push your new branch to your fork and submit a PR.)

[~aloraine] Please review the pull request
Link for the branch: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/integrated-genome-browser/branch/IGBF-2506#diff
Link for pull request: https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/integrated-genome-browser/pull-requests/848/igbf-2506-tabs-menu-font-continuity-in-igb

Merged.

Logan Weidenhammer - Please test this to check that the functionality described in the comments is implemented.

[~aloraine], New screenshots are posted of the Tabs menu label in IGB 9.1.4 and 9.1.6.

Functionally, it looks like the Tabs menu is a smaller font. My impression was that this implementation was the most economical option time wise due to the Tabs menu label being from a different class.

Functions in points 4, 5, and 6 from Jay's first comment are still present in IGB 9.1.6.
As confirmed by Chirag, the changes were not made for these points due to the high amount of code changes needed to implement the fixes.

The Tabs menu works as intended. Moving to closed.