[PD-dev] text placement

[Miller Puckette]

It's much more trouble to adapt Pd to use variable-width fonts, but totally
possible.  The trouble is the code that figures out where to put line
breaks fitting text into boxes and then how big to make the box around
the text.  Not the end of the world, I don't think.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:45:26PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> It turns out that the fonts seem to vary quite a bit in their  
> positioning... what a pain...  I still think the way to handle this  
> is to just set the boxes to pixel sizes, then let the fonts fall  
> where they may.  Too bad there isn't a free Lucida, or Inconsolata  
> isn't done yet...  I can't seem to get Tcl to use Inconsolata, maybe  
> because its a .otf not a .ttf.
> 
> One question I have is whether Pd really needs a monospaced font.  It  
> looks quite good with Lucida Grande, which is proportional.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >In g_rtext.c:
> >
> >        sys_vgui("pdtk_text_new .x%lx.c %s %f %f {%.*s} %d %s\n",
> >            canvas, x->x_tag,
> >            dispx + LMARGIN, dispy + TMARGIN,
> >            outchars, tempbuf, sys_hostfontsize(font),
> >            (glist_isselected(x->x_glist,
> >                &x->x_glist->gl_gobj)? "blue" : "black"));
> >
> >places the text, and the border gets drawn in the text_drawborder()
> >function.  I couldn't spot anything platform-dependent in the code,
> >although I've noticed that drawing comes out differently on Mac  
> >compared
> >to other platforms - create a slider, for instance and look at the  
> >bar.
> >I believe Pd corrects for that when drawing inlets/outlet on objects,
> >but I don't think there's anywhere else.
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>Can anyone point me to where the text is placed on the canvas in
> >>relation to the object and message boxes?  It seems to vary depending
> >>on platform and I'd like to troubleshoot it.
> >>
> >>.hc
> >>
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