http://wiki.tcl.tk/8484
tk scaling is a global setting for the application. I think it makes sense to either use tk scaling thruout, or ignore it. A half implemented feature is worse than none at all, IMHO. .hc On Nov 24, 2007, at 11:38 AM, 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> ---- >> >> As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be >> glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and >> this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list