On Nov 29, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Andre Schmidt wrote:
i remember someone saying "-*-courier-bold--normal--*-8" would be using pixel sizes (instead of point sizes). made a little test and font bomb didnt resize the fonts at all... (ill try more later)
btw. the code in miller cvs looked a little different... (pd devel cvs had issues, so i used millers cvs;)
I think I found something else. It seems that tk scaling only works
when fonts are specified using the tk font spec (courier 8 bold). The
fonts specified X-style (-*-courier-bold--normal--*-8) don't seem to
get scaled.
but i found something else (that i allways wanted to do:) http://wiki.tcl.tk/470 adding 'option add *font "Helvetica 10"' in top of 'pd.tk' changes all the tk widget fonts and 'option add *font "Helvetica -10"' seems to even use pixel sizes...
that wiki seems to be good resource, where i found about "tk scaling" too: http://wiki.tcl.tk/8484
btw. the little (useless?) tk scaling gallery is here: http://osku.de/pd/tst01/index.html
Nice, it does clearly demonstrate the variations on systems. It would
be really great to have everything controlled by tk scaling, then have
the tk scaling factor be a preference. Plus, you can get the current
screen DPI in Tk, so then you could have some level of automatic tk
scaling based on screen DPI.
.hc
getting font confused :) andre
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:37 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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Looks like that is done here (in u_main.tk aka pd.tk):
proc pdtk_pd_startup {version apilist} { global pd_myversion pd_apilist set pd_myversion $version set pd_apilist $apilist
set width1 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--8-* x] set height1 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--8-*]5]
set width2 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--10-* x] set height2 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--10-*]5]
set width3 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--12-* x] set height3 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--12-*]5]
set width4 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--14-* x] set height4 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--14-*]5]
set width5 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--16-* x] set height5 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--16-*]5]
set width6 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--24-* x] set height6 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--24-*]5]
set width7 [font measure -*-courier-bold--normal--36-* x] set height7 [lindex [font metrics -*-courier-bold--normal--36-*]5]
I don't have time to mess with it now, anyone else want to try?
.hc
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:25 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
Woo hoo!!!!
Miller, how does PD size object boxes?
b.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Duh, why didn't I remember the -10 thing. Anyway, I tried that, and it does indeed work! The font sizes are very similar in size on
Windows and Mac OS X. But now the problem is that the boxes on Mac OS X a being created too large. I think that this shouldn't be too hard to figure out, it might just be a matter of replacing all of the
Xwindows font specs with { courier -12 bold } Tk-style font specs.It would be great to get this into the upcoming Pd-extended release.
.hc
On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:38 AM, B. Bogart wrote:
hmmm, and did you try with the -10 pixel based font size?
if the pixel (width) of the font is known then it would be easy to scale the object box based on the number of characters/spaces.
Is that how this how it works now Miller?
Should be easy to adapt that code to work with a consistant font.
Good work Hans!
b.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > I think I found something: if you change the fontspec from > Xwindows > style ( -*-courier-bold--normal--10-) to standard Tk style { > courier 10 > bold }, then it looks like the fonts are the same size on MacOSX > and > Windows. But then, the only problem is that the object boxes
> don't > adjust, and are too short for the object text. > > It actually swings it the other way, with the same font being > bigger on > Windows than on OSX. > > > .hc > > On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:37 PM, carmen wrote: > >>> I don't see how the point size will be somehow different in >>> aspect >>> ratio >>> from the pixel size? >> >> >> >> why point/pixel sizes at all? for years the way to specify a
>> font >> size for web is in "em" units. 1.0em 0.8em etc.. >> >>> If courier 12 is say 10pixels wide then it should be identical
>>> to >>> courier -10 visually, since the aspect *should* be the same. >> >> >> >> even a 12 point font can be different on the same platform >> depending >> on which DPI you launched your X server at, which toolkit you
>> are >> using, etc.. >> >>> Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by the "at least three >>> dimensions >>> to a font size"? >> >> >> >> id say theres at least 4... platform, dpi, font, fontsize >> >>> The font issue is really a stumbling block for trying to make >>> anything >>> look constant accross platforms. The current PD documentation
>>> is >>> a >>> great >>> example of this, where, depending on the platform, many >>> help-patches >>> open with overlapping messages/comments. :( >> >> >> >> how about a scalable canvas with a client-side algo to make sure >> nothing overlaps? something like >> http://whats-your.name/pd/chokun.png >> but with less ugly colours? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > __ > ___ > __ > ____ > > There is no way to peace, peace is the way. > -A.J. Muste > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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