[PD] Font weirdness with 0.43test

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Aug 22, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, the IEMGUI font size issues are still very present.  I  
>>>> think the best way forward is to write a new GUI lib, the IEMGUI  
>>>> code is really hard to follow and/or modify.
>>> Come on. It only has with the use of the -%d in the sys_vgui  
>>> calls, whereever the "fs" variable appears. We introduced that to  
>>> fix a certain problem about sizes, but for some reason, it didn't  
>>> produce the result we expected (the use of pixel sizes). It will  
>>> be a small fix like this, by search-and-replace in a few files or  
>>> so.
>>
>> Please fix it and submit a patch, that would be awesome!
>
> What I mean is that the part of changing the IEMGUI code is simple.  
> What I don't know, is what needs to be done so that -%d gets  
> replaced by something that is considered cross-platform in Tk.
>
> The fudge factor I used is the same value as the [tk scaling] value  
> I have on my computer, which is 1.332... ; but the font sizes I use  
> are not big enough to make sure that it's the right constant to use.

tk scaling is set to a fixed size in Pd 0.43, so it should work cross- 
platform.  I suppose its really a matter of testing it.

.hc

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