>> Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences? That is information >> that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.
> Look here: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-&-comparisons > Here it is shown the diff between Vanilla & > extended:http://lucarda.com.ar/x/Van-Ext-diff.jpg > There are chances that you may prefer one of these 2 settings, depending on > your amount of patches done on Vanilla or Extended. I get that. But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to become a public API. And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works: "I told Pd to make the 12pt font 7x15 pixels, but it is isn't 7x15. Is this a bug?" -Jonathan > Of course this could be set outside of the preferences on a separate file. > Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas. From: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:55 PM To: Lucas Cordiviola; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file. > Ok, Thanx for the detalis. > Anyway before concluding this thread I must said that this year I've been > connecting the pref.file to 2 things: > Purr-Data : > https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-01/117407.html> Deken : If > necessary the pref.file can hold the deken path.for.externals. > And most importantly I connected the pref.file cuz Miller announced it this > year for Win & Mac. > Do you think there's need to add a couple of things to the actual prefs? > Font metrics? Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences? That is information that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically. -Jonathan > Deken path? Salutti,Lucarda. Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
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