> Jonathan: One of the remaining problems I have with the Tk 8.6 build is the padding added to the object box width in HiDPI. Any clues on what to look into to fix this? The object arguments are clearly the same width… or appear to be.
Pd Vanilla has a different font-sizing/box-sizing algorithm than the one
I described. Instead of fitting font sizes to a spec, it amends the spec to
accommodate the actual font sizes.
Look at the Tk 8.6 DejuVu Sans Mono bold retina text, for example. Even if
you had no padding, the text "tabread~ 29-envelope" is actually wider than
the box that contains that text in all the other examples.
Probably Vanilla works that way because of the limitation of integer-based
font sizing in Tk. Even though the text in that example is wider than the others,
it still appears to my eye to be roughly similar size. If instead you kept the box
width constant and chose the next smallest integer to fit that text, the whole
patch would appear to contain smaller text than other examples.
-Jonathan