Hi,
As I mentioned in an earlier unrelated message, I have just upgraded to 0.41 and it seems it fixes some critical bugs that made my life a hell.
Now, something has changed in how GUI texts look like. Probably it's just the font that is being used, I don't know if some more aspects are involved (spacings, sizes...).
I make extensive use of GUI, and now my patches made with 0.40.1 look horrible.
Is there any way in WINDOWS to configure PD to use the same font that was used by default in 0.40.1? Will it be enough to have the gui look the same as it before?
I attach two screenshots of the same piece of GUI as it looked in 0.40 and as it looks now in 0.41. Tastes are personal, but I don't really think anybody can honestly tell it looks better in the new version...
matteo sisti sette wrote:
Hi,
I attach two screenshots of the same piece of GUI as it looked in 0.40 and as it looks now in 0.41. Tastes are personal, but I don't really think anybody can honestly tell it looks better in the new version...
it's not a matter of "better" or "worse": i cannot possibly imagine any way to make something look better, once you have handcrafted your personal GUI. afaik, the idea of the changes was to make the look more cross-platform; this way, it should be possible that your layout (that took you ages) will look good on other machines too (and not just yours). obviously this change will come at some cost, because most of the old layout will not be 100% compatible with the new layout - they will be "similar" enough to keep it useable, though.
that's the good news. the bad news is, that afair, this attempt has failed yet again on Pd-0.41.
fgmasdr. IOhannes
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:19 +0100, matteo sisti sette wrote:
Hi,
As I mentioned in an earlier unrelated message, I have just upgraded to 0.41 and it seems it fixes some critical bugs that made my life a hell.
Now, something has changed in how GUI texts look like. Probably it's just the font that is being used, I don't know if some more aspects are involved (spacings, sizes...).
I make extensive use of GUI, and now my patches made with 0.40.1 look horrible.
Is there any way in WINDOWS to configure PD to use the same font that was used by default in 0.40.1? Will it be enough to have the gui look the same as it before?
I attach two screenshots of the same piece of GUI as it looked in 0.40 and as it looks now in 0.41. Tastes are personal, but I don't really think anybody can honestly tell it looks better in the new version...
i have the impression, that it might be only a scaling issue. the appearance of fonts in pd is still an issue and, afaik, currently in focus to be fixed. that is probably why patches look different in different versions of pd. i think, it would be best to _not_ rely any particular appearance these days. once all those issues are fixed, it should be possible to get the same appearance by using a different fontsize.
roman
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On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:19 +0100, matteo sisti sette wrote:
Hi,
As I mentioned in an earlier unrelated message, I have just upgraded to 0.41 and it seems it fixes some critical bugs that made my life a hell.
Now, something has changed in how GUI texts look like. Probably it's just the font that is being used, I don't know if some more aspects are involved (spacings, sizes...).
I make extensive use of GUI, and now my patches made with 0.40.1
look horrible.Is there any way in WINDOWS to configure PD to use the same font that was used by default in 0.40.1? Will it be enough to have the gui look the same as it before?
I attach two screenshots of the same piece of GUI as it looked in
0.40 and as it looks now in 0.41. Tastes are personal, but I don't really think anybody can honestly tell it looks better in the new version...i have the impression, that it might be only a scaling issue. the appearance of fonts in pd is still an issue and, afaik, currently in focus to be fixed. that is probably why patches look different in different versions of pd. i think, it would be best to _not_ rely any particular appearance these days. once all those issues are fixed, it should be possible to get the same appearance by using a different fontsize.
The pixel and font sizes are now exactly the same size on all
platforms using Pd-extended 0.39.3 as was demonstrated by lots of
testing. I am committing to maintaining that in future versions,
regardless of what happens with pd-vanilla, since I think it is
essential to GUI design and patch layout.
.hc
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