diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/Messages.java b/app/src/processing/app/Messages.java
index 5f955cc4d..f79af6714 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/Messages.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/Messages.java
@@ -132,7 +132,9 @@ public class Messages {
t.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(new Frame(),
- Toolkit.formatMessage(message + "
" + sw + ""),
+ // first
clears to the next line
+ // second
is a shorter height blank space before the trace
+ Toolkit.formatMessage(message + "
" + sw + ""),
title,
fatal ?
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE :
diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/ui/Toolkit.java b/app/src/processing/app/ui/Toolkit.java
index c00ae41cf..54c5e7fb7 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/ui/Toolkit.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/ui/Toolkit.java
@@ -1336,8 +1336,10 @@ public class Toolkit {
// Necessary to replace \n with
(even if pre) otherwise Java
// treats it as a closed tag and reverts to plain formatting.
return " " +
- " " +
message.replaceAll("\n", "
");
}
diff --git a/todo.txt b/todo.txt
index 4f35ae520..2b8c36563 100755
--- a/todo.txt
+++ b/todo.txt
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ X contrib mgr: filter/dropdown vertical centering is too high
X should be resolved with both fonts now being installed
X two tier dialog box (defaulting back to Lucida)
X dialog box with stack trace (font is too small)
+X actually fix the stack trace dialog with 12pt font size change
X text gutter doesn't seem to be hidpi
X or is it b/c screen not quite 2x? (nope)
X try to tweak the line numbers in the gutter a bit