Hi Kristof
If you use the ActiveTcl wish for your "MOSFLM_WISH" environment
variable rather than the X11 wish that the ccp4 install uses, you get
nice Mac fonts which have had their sizes chosen so they look good.
You would need to
(1) Install the ActiveTcl distro (unnecessary if you're running OSX
10.6, Apple's wish 8.4 is good on that)
(2) set MOSFLM_WISH to point to the ActiveTcl wish8.4 in
your .cshrc, .login, or .bashrc, so it's persistent through sessions
(3) run ccp4i, go to "System Administration->Configure Interface" and
change the line "Command to run iMosflm" to something like
[GetEnvPath MOSFLM_WISH] [file join [GetEnvPath CCP4I_TOP] imosflm
imosflm.tcl] project [GetCurrentProjectDir [GetCurrentProject]]
Needless to say, this is what I do!
The [GetEnvPath MOSFLM_WISH] is the bit that tells ccp4i which wish
you wish to use for iMosflm
If you really want to use the X11 wish for iMosflm on OSX, then it is
possible to change the font sizes if you're prepared to edit some of
the Tcl code in imosflm/src/imosflm.tcl - look for lines that define
the fonts for different platforms, e.g.
# Set up fonts used in GUI - these will be slightly configurable
one day
set normal_font_size 12
if {$::tcl_platform(os) == "Windows NT"} {
set normal_font_size 10
} elseif {[tk windowingsystem] == "aqua"} {
set normal_font_size 14
} else {
set normal_font_size 12
}
But I wouldn't do that. Why buy a Mac with a beautiful Aqua display
if you're going to use the X11 display?
(actually, to answer my own question, Bltwish, {which is required for
ccp4i} hasn't been ported to Aqua and probably never will be, which
is why ccp4i on Macs use the X11 version)
HTH
On 17 Aug 2010, at 10:59, Kristof Van Hecke wrote:
Dear,
I've just installed the latest iMosflm 1.0.4, as well as the CCP4
6.1.13 suite (under Mac OS 10.5.8).
However, where does iMosflm get its font sizes..?
(these are quite big actually, and I'd like to reduce them)
Thank you very much
Sincerely
Kristof Van Hecke
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