[PD] Cross-platform uniform GUI rendering of patches.

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Ok, seems we have yet another thread to keep discussing a same topic that I
kinda started. Anyway, if the focus of the debate has changed indeed, I
suggest changing the thread name and adding (was: "xxxx" <= old thread
subject), in this case: (was: (wip) Preferences file).

So, I did bring this up, how patches look differently in vanilla according
to the operating system, and how they look different from extended / purr
data (which, on their own, look consistent in all platforms and also look
like each other!).

Changing the font metrics from Vanilla to extended's/purr data's doesn't
compromise the patch as the other way around does. Cause opening extended
patches in the vanilla's metrics does compromise the visual experience a
lot, creating all sorts of overlaps... I already pointed this out in the
previous threads.

So, keeping it objective and not to repeat myself too much, I consider this
an issue, an undesired behaviour, a bug, whatever, and I hope we could fix
it. Any opposition? What is the best way to do this?

cheers



2017-02-21 19:05 GMT-03:00 Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>:

> >> Ok, if that's the case then I would suggest not to add a user-facing
> font-metrics option.
>
> >+1
>
> >i'd also like to add, that we should not (ever) add an option with the
> sole purpose of working around bugs.
>
> Is it a bug?
>
> >if you consider the slightly different font sizes a bug (and i gather
> you do), then we should find a solution to the bug itself (rather than
> provide an easy way to make everything worse).
>
> Yes.
>
> >if you only consider them an annoyance, you might want to investigate in
> creating a gui-plugin that fixes the problem.
>
> We have a problem.
>
> >(it seems that currently, Pd-gui signals the font metrics back to
> Pd-core, which will (among other things) trigger Pd-core to load it's
> libraries. it might be worth entangling *that*)
>
> Yes, I cant override or change the variable “font_metrics” set @ line 127
> from “pd-gui.tcl” using a gui-plugin.
>
> Is it posible?
>
> I still think that shipping dejavu and hard-code Pd-extended metrics is
> full of goodness.
>
> Salutti,
> Lucarda
>
>
> >fgamdsr
> >IOhannes
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