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- From: boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Font-size independence GadTools package
- Message-ID: <1589@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 12:44:17 GMT
- References: <9208261339.AA03776@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <1992Sep4.125246.11423@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1578@lysator.liu.se> <1992Sep6.034539.304@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
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- willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring) writes:
-
- >In article <1578@lysator.liu.se> boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg) writes:
- >>willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring) writes:
- >>> GadToolsBox works with prop-fonts..
- >>
- >> Does it really work with proportional fonts? I don't think so... At least
- >>it didn't when I tried it. The real problem is that it does not have any
- >>means of localizing programs easily. With localized programs you must have
- >>a very flexible system in order to allow for greatly varying string lengths.
-
- >Yeah it does work with proprotional fonts. I can use Helvetica 13 point font
- >in X-Comm's windows and it turns out very nicely.
-
- It may work OK with some proportional fonts, but since GadToolsBox simply
- scales all coordinates by a factor dependant on the font HEIGHT windows get
- very ugly (lots of empty space) when using Helvetica 18 for example
- (as I do) where the characters are high and thin.
-
- > Yes I agree. Localisation is a REAL pain. Look at 'Term's english catalog
- > - 150K of strings that you have to manage. Real bummer if you ask me.
-
- Actually, it's quite easy to manage the strings themselves. The hard part
- is to build localized GUI's. Localizing LhA took me four hours. I won't
- localize LhI or LhBackup until I get/make a flexible system for window &
- gadget layout however - there's no way I'll code everything by hand.
-
- >> <... BOOPSI et al ...>
-
- > Yeah well if commodore bought it upon themselves to explain what all those
- > lovely intuition.library calls actually did, We'd make more use of it.
- > I have yet to figure out what it's all about. :-)..
-
- Yes, even though the new RKMs are much better than the previous ones,
- there are a few areas that are a bit confusing. Especially the BOOPSI
- section should have been expanded, IMO. That is the most complex part
- of Intuition and still the documentation is VERY terse. More examples
- on grouping (not that the current RKMs has got any...) etc. would have
- been very nice indeed.
-
- > BTW I'm hanging on LhI? howz V2.00 going? Sounds absolutly mind-boggling
- > (Kick those MS-DOS users eh?). Is LhI going to be a full blown 2.0 style
- > interface with all those pretty guages and stuff? Would be very nice.
-
- It's V37+ only. Everything's font-sensitive and it's got `pretty gauges
- and stuff', as you put it, all over the place :-) I don't settle for
- anything less than perfect. Don't hold your breath though, it won't be
- released in a month or two (still only at alpha stage).
-
- Regards,
- Stefan
- --
- Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X, Full
- Contact and Miami Chase.
- EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se FidoNet: 2:204/404.7
- --
- Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X, Full
- Contact and Miami Chase.
- EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se FidoNet: 2:204/404
-