Actually, I think the preferred way of specifying the font would be to use Tk font specs rather than X11 font specs. They are easier anyway. I replaced all the X11 font specs in Pd-extended using Tk font specs.

They are like this:

"font size style", i.e.: courier 12 bold monaco 24 bold helvetica 12 (blank style means normal)

.hc

On Sep 2, 2007, at 6:14 PM, federico wrote:

I reply to myself. it seems that using:

-font -*-courier-bold--normal--%d-*

with %d = glist_getfont(glist)

gives a coherent measure.

anyone can confirm that?

On 9/2/07, federico mescalinum@gmail.com wrote:

...

hi all, I re-subscribed today to this list, and now I'm learning the gui part of pd externals.

I've almost finished my first gui external, just I don't know how to specify the current(canvas) font with the Tk's -font option (since Tk wants a string, while pd uses integers).

actually I'm doing that (in CLASSNAME_new()):

int font = glist_getfont(x->x_glist); int width = sys_fontwidth(font); int height = sys_fontheight(font);

but it seems (at least the width - perhaps it's a coincidence) that metrics are wrong.

right now I do not pass *ANY* option to [.x%c.c create text ...]. which font is that one in glist measured by sys_font*() ?

I've checked out other externals, but I see every one picks an arbitrary font and arbitrary sizes :S

I hope there's a better way...

best regards, Federico

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