[PD-dev] Pd-extended-0.43 appearance

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:33 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
> > Hi Hans
> >
> > I noticed a significant difference between Pd-extended-0.43 and
> > Pd-vanilla-0.43 appearance. Symbol- and Numberboxes are 2 px higher in
> > Extended than in Vanilla. This is especially problematic in cases  
> > where
> > a GOP-patch in Vanilla was created so that the number/symbol box
> > perfectly fits in. The same GOP-abstraction in Pd-extended does not  
> > show
> > the number/symbol box at all, because it is overlapping the GOP area  
> > of
> > the abstraction.
> 
> I measured a default number box on Pd-extended 0.42.5 and 0.43.  They  
> both were 21x39 pixels at 12 point font size.  I don't know the  
> details of the current state of this stuff in vanilla, but in Pd- 
> extended, these sizes have been consistent across platform and version  
> since 0.41 at least.

I totally believe you that Pd-extended was consistent to itself since
0.41. Still, the difference renders certain patches/abstractions somehow
unportable between the two (extended and vanilla). What do you think
would be the best way to deal with that?
 
> 
> > I also noticed that Pd-extended-0.43 on OS X does not use anti-aliased
> > fonts, although it is (I think) using Tcl/Tk 8.5, while Pd- 
> > vanilla-0.43
> > does use anti-aliased fonts.
> >
> > On Ubuntu both, Pd-extended and Pd-vanilla 0.43, do use anti-aliased
> > fonts.
> 
> 
> That's an odd bug I've never seen.  Pd-extended on Mac OS X has had  
> anti-aliased fonts for a long time (0.40?) and it does on every Mac  
> I've seen it on.  Can you post a screenshot?

Probably it's a very recent regression bug. The oldest autobuild of
Pd-extended-0.43 I tested was probably a week old. Actually, on all
(probably 5 different?) OS X machines I tested the new builds on the
fonts were aliased. But it could well be, that all the machines were
10.6.X (don't know if that matters).

Attached two screenshots taken from the same machine, one from
Pd-extended0-42.5 and one from Pd-extended-0.43.1

Roman

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