RE: [Eap-list] Colors and Fonts very slow...

[Mark Swinkels]

Title: Colors and Fonts very slow...

It is very slow when it hits big fonts that have 1000's of glyphs. I'm not sure but I think its just verifying that the font is indeed a fixed pitch font (with the same advance width for all the characters) so that the display doesn't get messed up. Do you have more or different fonts installed on your machine?

 

Personally I like programming using variable pitch fonts because they are more readable. There were some articles back in the 80's about typesetting code for readability that had some beautiful examples of using proportional fonts and multiple font sizes to make code more readable.

 

-- Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 06:22a
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [Eap-list] Colors and Fonts very slow...

Hi,

This has been a problem since I started using Idea (September 2001). I haven't mentioned it before because my mates (who also use it) have never had the same problem.

Basically when I click on the Colors & Fonts in IDE Options and then the elipses next to font name - the analysing fonts dialog pops up and the the entire IDE feezes for about 10 to 15 minutes while it tries to 'analyse' the fonts, only ever repainting itself when the font being analysed changes. It does get there eventually but it just takes soooo long. I don't know if this has ever been a problem for anyone else using the IDE (I haven't seen it on the lists before). I am using Windows NT 4, Idea 605, J2SDK1.3.1_02 (and 1.4 intermittently).

I am guessing that this isn't a bug but I wondered if anyone else has come across it and whether there is something that can be done to fix it.

Thanks
Scott Curtis