[PD] pd 0.41.0 test07 font size

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Sat Nov 24 23:29:41 CET 2007


excuse me, if this is already was mentioned and i missed it, but the
different-fontsizes-with-different-display-resolution-problem was not
introduced with 0.41. at least it exists already in 0.40.

roman


On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 08:38 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> I favor the negative-font-size approach since it makes it possible for
> future extesions to control their own behavior.
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:35:12PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > On Nov 23, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > >
> > >>FYI: in Pd-extended, the IEM guis and the Pd fonts are the same  
> > >>sizes on all platforms. One key part of it is: "tk scaling 1",  
> > >>perhaps the resolution changing the font size is related to that.
> > >
> > >Also, as I've said before, using negative font sizes bypasses the  
> > >scaling, because then the units are pixels instead of points. "tk  
> > >scaling 1" makes this easier if all you ever want is pixel fonts,  
> > >but if you want both points and pixels for any reason, then you  
> > >have to use negative font sizes.
> > 
> > pd-vanilla isn't using the tk scaling stuff at all, so it makes IMHO  
> > to turn it off, in effect, by forcing it to be 1.
> > 
> > .hc
> > 
> > 
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