It turns out that the fonts seem to vary quite a bit in their positioning... what a pain... I still think the way to handle this is to just set the boxes to pixel sizes, then let the fonts fall where they may. Too bad there isn't a free Lucida, or Inconsolata isn't done yet... I can't seem to get Tcl to use Inconsolata, maybe because its a .otf not a .ttf.
One question I have is whether Pd really needs a monospaced font. It looks quite good with Lucida Grande, which is proportional.
.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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