[PD-dev] remove tk scaling

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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 >From: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
>To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 
>Cc: pd-dev at iem.at 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:12 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] remove tk scaling
 

>What I've never understood is this: why wouldn't it suffice to 'unscale'
just the fonts Pd uses explicitly?  One can get an unscaled font by asking
for a size like -12 - then we wouldn't have to bash tk_scalaing globally
(thereby ruining font sizes in open dialogs and whatnot that Pd doesn't
depend on anyhow.)

>(the relevant doc is in the "font" manual age for TK; "If size is
a negative number, its absolute value is interpreted as  a  size in pixels."

That's exactly what Pd does-- I should have said in my previous message
I tested patches with 0.44-3 on Debian Wheezy, OSX, and Windows
XP.  All the iemgui and object fonts must be negative because they are
pixel exact whether you use [tk scaling 0.2] or [tk scaling 8].

Furthermore, if someone codes a gui external that doesn't use pixel
sizes for fonts to appear on the canvas _and_ they want pixel-exactness,
it's a bug, no?

-Jonathan
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