On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0800, Anthony Foglia wrote: > Hard to say. It depends on whether most people use the HiRes > ability when reading text on the Clie. I do, so I vote for default > on-if-supported.
I would assume quite a bit. Why would someone buy a USD$400 palm that has hires support if they leave it off?.. I'm including the option because turning it off results in faster overall usage as well gives it the cool retro look :) .. I would code in on-if-supported, but its less work for me to just leave it off by default :) > > For fonts, selections will include tiny, tiny bold, small, small bold, > > standard, standard bold, large, large bold. Are all these bold options > > necessary/used? > > Again hard to say. I'd probably stick with using standard because > it'll be a good size, and nicely rendered, but I'll try small and small > bold. Tiny is probably too small. Some people will use standard bold, as > they think the normal hi-res standard is too thin too read. I would agree. however, having bold as every second option is cumbersome. It would be better since bold is valid for every value (except narrow) just to put it as a checkbox beside the font selection list. (could disappear for fonts that dont support it, like narrow) Personally, I do like having tiny available.. pixel wise its the same as the standard font on the regular palm, except its about 25% the size of standard on the regular palm. > > The narrow font looks EXTREMLY small, (height of tiny, half as wide) > > should it be ported to the standard font's size? left out, included? > > How hard is it to keep in? These font questions are hard to > determine until I see a beta version and try them out. Very easy to keep in, but is it worth it to if its not useful to anyone, as well, it wouldn't be too difficult to port narrow into a larger format, add in more detail...etc > > That's it for now, .. Right now im just debugging a few UI issues. As > > soon as thats done people should begin to betatest it I would think. > > How dangerous are the betas usually? Should I be buying > BackupBuddy? :-) Hardly.. right now the big problems consist of the scrollbar not working if it's on the right; the toolbar doesn't work if it's on the bottom, jogdial support seems to be unresponsive as soon as you come back from the preferences form (possibly others as well) (not a hires issue, but really bugs me); and its randomly crashing if i switch from toolbar top, toolbar bottom, toolbar top repeatidly. other than that it's usable :) -- Adam McDaniel Array Networks Calgary, AB, Canada
