[PD] good ol' font size test for 0.41

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Unfortunately, 0.41.0 on Mac OS X still has the same IEMGUI/Pd font  
issue as before:

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I still think it is best to hardcode tk scaling to 1 on all  
platforms.  Pd is not using tk scaling at all, so it should be turned  
off, instead of writing code to work around a  it.

.hc

On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Sorry for the slow followup.
>
> I'm of the belief that the font sizes for object, message, and comment
> boxes are the same in 0.41 as 0.40, would like to know if that's not
> true.
>
> I adopted all of HC's patches for the IEM GUIs, since fint size  
> changes in
> those seem less of a problem.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:43:55PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
>>
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone tried testing the font sizes on 0.41 yet?  I am
>>>> reviving  this good ol' font test patch to see how it's working.
>>>> The [courier  10( box is a new size on Mac OS X (71x16) and it
>>>> seems that the  IEMGUI font and the Pd font are not the same
>>>> size.  On Mac OS X, a Pd  font of 10pt matches the IEMGUI font of
>>>> 12pt.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The message box fits into a 60x19 rectangle here on WinXP, so it
>>> seems to be 2 pixels wider than previous versions.
>>
>> Hmm, so I guess 0.41 is basically in the same boat as previous
>> versions in regards to box/font size problems.
>>
>> .hc
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