On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > For the official record-- I'm holding my tongue, in the hopes that when > others look at the code > in my GUI port they'll practice similar restraint. > > Ok, add this: > > pdtk_post "for real this time-- the actual font we are sending to tk is: > [set [get_font_for_size $font_size]]\n"
Pd list is now looking at a line that doesn't work. The error is: can't read "::pd_font_10": no such variable > -Jonathan > > > > > > > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 3:19 PM, katja <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: >> Silly me, I forgot this is Pd so it has to be way more complex than >> that... >> >> Add this line to pdtk_text_new in pdtk_text.tcl: >> >> pdtk_post "the actual font we are sending to tk is: [get_font_for_size >> $font_size]\n" >> >> Now do the test I mentioned before. > > The answer is in both cases: > > "the actual font we are sending to tk is: ::pd_font_10" > > > >> -Jonathan >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi katja, >> >> Could you do a test? Make a simple patch with a single object in it, and >> use the same canvas font size you did above. Then run Pd with -d 3 flag >> and >> see what font size is actually being sent from Pd to the GUI on each >> distro. >> >> -Jonathan >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:28 PM, katja <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> A particular font size issue can be observed in vanilla Pd and package >> puredata on Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie: font size 10 is larger for >> object boxes, message boxes and comments than for IEM guis (bang, >> toggle, slider, radio button, canvas). Object/message/comment >> characters are too large in number of pixels. When Edit > Font > Font >> Size is set to 8, their size is identical to IEM gui font size 10. >> This inconsistency does not happen for me on Xubuntu. A test patch and >> two screenshots are attached for illustration. >> >> For IEM guis, font size 10 translates to 6 pixels per character on >> both systems, given the default font type DejaVu Sans Mono. For object >> boxes, message boxes and comments, font size 10 is 6 pixels on Xubuntu >> and almost 7 pixels on Raspbian. >> >> I don't know if this issue is related to font size effects on Windows >> as described by Roman in another thread. In any case, consequences are >> similar: patches created on Xubuntu tend to look messy on Raspbian, >> sometimes with overlapping texts. With XFCE (Xubuntu's default desktop >> environment) installed on Raspbian the issue still persists. Custom >> dpi setting has no effect on Pd. What else might cause the difference >> in behavior on those systems? >> >> Katja >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
