[PD] Fonts in Pd compiled against tcl/tk 8.5 WAS: Pd-extended 0.41.4 release candidate 1

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think it should, but I don't remember exactly.

.hc

On May 18, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Matt Barber wrote:

> Does this handle fonts for all the iemguis, and for data structures  
> as well?
>
> As it turns out, all the fonts are too large on my system, not just
> the text object ones.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> Federico figured out something for pd-devel 0.41.4 to actually  
>> measure the
>> font size and use that, its in the fit_font_into_metrics proc:
>>
>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/branches/pd-devel/0.41.4/src/pd.tk?revision=10896&view=markup
>>
>> Basically, I think it would be really easy to test for Tcl 8.5 in  
>> u_main.tk
>> then use one of these solutions to adjust the font size to be  
>> correct.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On May 17, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Matt Barber wrote:
>>
>>> Hector Centeno said:
>>>
>>>> OK, I got the font size fixed! If I change the foreach (at line  
>>>> 3944)
>>>> in pd.tk from:
>>>>
>>>> foreach i {8 9 10 12 14 16 18 24 30 36} {
>>>>
>>>> to:
>>>>
>>>> foreach i {4 6 8 9 10 12 14 16 18 24} {
>>>>
>>>> The text stays withing the object boxes. Exactly what is happening
>>>> here I don't know. I have to analyze further to find out what's  
>>>> going
>>>> on.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hector's fix (or something similar) works for me as well for text
>>> boxes -- although the pixel-perfect mapping for me on Fedora 10  
>>> seems
>>> to be at about .75:
>>>
>>> 8   ->  6
>>> 10 ->  8
>>> 12 ->  9
>>> 16 -> 12
>>> 24 -> 18
>>> 36 -> 28
>>>
>>>
>>> So the question is -- it's easy enough to edit u_main.tk to check if
>>> it is using 8.5 and then use the new mapping if so, but is it better
>>> to implement the mapping in s_main.c, where the t_fontinfo struct
>>> already provides fi_hostfontsize?
>>>
>>> In this case it would be easy to make both files check for 8.5 and
>>> handle things that way.
>>> I can post diffs for either solution.
>>>
>>> All the gui object fonts are too large as well.  I wonder if these
>>> problems are popping up on other tcl/tk apps on these distros -- it
>>> would be more satisfying to get to the bottom of the underlying
>>> problem than to hack the font mapping.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>>
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