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- From: s37732v@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
- Subject: Re: User preferred FONT support?
- In-Reply-To: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com's message of 5 Sep 92 00:24:19 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:29:54
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- In article <25440015@hpsad.sad.hp.com> kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:
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- I am attempting to support the users default fonts in a card file
- program which opens on the workbench screen. The problem is that I have a
- row of gadgets which are placed across the bottom of the screen. The
- gadgets currently re-size themselves to accommodate the font used. The only
- problem is that when the fonts get to big the gadgets begin to overlap
- each other. This happens when the point size begins to reach about 13 or
- 14 and I don't really have the option of opening a bigger window since
- the window is already 640 pixels wide.
-
- So, the question is how do I handle this problem and still follow C='s
- guidelines of supporting user preferred fonts?
-
- Should I only allow the user a maximum size and supply my own defaults if
- the size is exceeded?
-
- I think the best way is to try use default font and if it's too big
- then use topaz8. Then program atleast works somehow even if the font
- is too big.
-
- Or you could try to make two (three...) rows of buttons if they wont
- fit into one row.
-
- It's a shame that font scaling is so slow because then you could try
- to scale default font smaller.
-
- Any ideas would be appreciated.
-
- Three suggestions. I think the 1st and 2nd are easiest and 3rd is nice
- but is too slow.
-
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- | Kevin J. Taddeucci | e-mail: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com |
- | Hewlett Packard Firmware QA | HPDesk: Kevin TADDEUCCI /HP5300/A0 |
- | Telnet: 794-4192 | HP Mailstop: 2LR-N |
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