Thanks much. I'll take a look. But now after fiddling with different fonts, it seems that its the fonts themselves that have different placement. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono seems to be too high up. Lucida Grande looks much better:
http://bam.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/
Since I am on the topic, I thought I'd post about what I did to get the same size boxes on each platform. It's pretty simple actually, I just hardcoded the values, eliminating all the Tcl/Tk and Pd that tries to guess the box size based on font measurements. Basically, the Courier font that is provided on each platform is not the same font at all. They are all different heights and widths. So the way around this is to use the exact same font on each platform. That's why I choose Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. It is available under a BSD- ish license and works on all platforms. I originally thought that a mono-spaced font was necessary, but after seeing Lucida Grande, I think a proportional font works nicely.
.hc
On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
In g_rtext.c:
sys_vgui("pdtk_text_new .x%lx.c %s %f %f {%.*s} %d %s\n", canvas, x->x_tag, dispx + LMARGIN, dispy + TMARGIN, outchars, tempbuf, sys_hostfontsize(font), (glist_isselected(x->x_glist, &x->x_glist->gl_gobj)? "blue" : "black"));places the text, and the border gets drawn in the text_drawborder() function. I couldn't spot anything platform-dependent in the code, although I've noticed that drawing comes out differently on Mac compared to other platforms - create a slider, for instance and look at the bar. I believe Pd corrects for that when drawing inlets/outlet on objects, but I don't think there's anywhere else.
cheers Miller
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Can anyone point me to where the text is placed on the canvas in relation to the object and message boxes? It seems to vary depending on platform and I'd like to troubleshoot it.
.hc
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