Apologies, I meant to forward that email to my brother who works with the Sharon Veach at Sun, the original poster. He has been consulting me on this and I recommended this list. Sharon, good luck! You did get a reply when you added more specifics ... hope you get more help. (Sharon, Raoul has some views about monitor adjustments ... you should have heard from him by now.)
Again, sorry everyone! Jing ------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jing Torralba" <jingtorra...@comcast.net> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:36:34 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Framers Digest, Vol 41, Issue 19 Here's a piece of the frame users digest get. Your friend did have a small bite this time. I thought changing screen res wouldn't work, but looks like she hasn't tried it ... -------------------------------------- ?? 6. Re: Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu ?? ? ?items on ????????the Solaris platform (Peter Gold) ?? 7. Re: Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu ?? ? ?items????????on????????the Solaris platform (Sharon Veach) ?? ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:30:38 -0700 From: Sharon Veach <sharon.r...@sun.com> Subject: Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu items ????????on the????????Solaris platform To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <49C7C73E.9020708 at sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi: Second try, more platform information. I am running Frame on a Solaris system on a GNOME desktop. ?The GNOME desktop preferences fonts do not affect the font of anything in Frame - not the menus, not the default text size in the window, not the size of the initial Frame menu box. How can I increase the font size of menu items and dialog box fonts from within Frame? I can increase the font size where I type, but I am having difficulty seeing the fonts in dialog boxes. The File Open dialog box is particularly tricky, since it is the first one that comes up, and its font size is minute. In EPIC, you can pass the fonts to the application by running the following command in a shell: epic -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 When I try that with Frame, the format of the font is not recognized: maker -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 Frame returns the message: **Warning: Cannot convert string "encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:16" to type FontStruct ** So, what is the magic format where a font encoding is readable by Frame, and then Frame can turn it into a FontStruct that Frame recognizes? Thanx for any pointers, Sharon ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:28:54 -0500 From: Peter Gold <pe...@knowhowpro.com> Subject: Re: Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu ????????items on ????????the Solaris platform To: Sharon Veach <sharon.read at sun.com> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: ????????<905e72990903231128j3b05733duaf733a30099e823f at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, Sharon: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Sharon Veach <sharon.read at sun.com> wrote: > Hi: > > Second try, more platform information. > I am running Frame on a Solaris system on a GNOME desktop. ?The GNOME > desktop preferences fonts do not affect the font of anything in Frame - > not the menus, > not the default text size in the window, not the size of the initial > Frame menu box. > > How can I increase the font size of menu items and dialog box fonts from > within Frame? > > I can increase the font size where I type, but I am having difficulty > seeing > the fonts in dialog boxes. The File Open dialog box is particularly > tricky, since > it is the first one that comes up, and its font size is minute. > > In EPIC, you can pass the fonts to the application by running the > following command > in a shell: > > epic -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 > > When I try that with Frame, the format of the font is not recognized: > > maker -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 > > Frame returns the message: > **Warning: Cannot convert string > "encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:16" to type FontStruct ** > > So, what is the magic format where a font encoding is readable by Frame, > and then Frame can turn it > into a FontStruct that Frame recognizes? > > Thanx for any pointers, > Sharon > _______________________________ Look for the PDF or .fm document "Customizing Frame Products" in the onlinemanuals directory in your FM installation tree. It may be in the fminit directory. I believe that Unix FM is the only FM version that permits customizing the fonts in dialog boxes. I may be wrong on this - it may only customize fonts in catalog titles, like Character Format catalog and Paragraph Format catalog, and menu titles and options. Many unix FM properties are configurable via x-resources. I seem to recall that an x-resource can set fonts. Another approach is to lower your screen resolution to show less real estate at a larger size. HTH Regards, Peter __________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:59:59 -0700 From: Sharon Veach <sharon.r...@sun.com> Subject: Re: Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu ????????items????????on????????the Solaris platform To: peter at knowhowpro.com Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: <49C7EA3F.4000800 at sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Thanx a bunch - I'll find an X resources person here and locate the online manuals. ?And I hadn't thought of lowering the screen resolution. Will try some stuff, Sharon Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Sharon: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Sharon Veach <sharon.read at sun.com> > wrote: > ? >> Hi: >> >> Second try, more platform information. >> I am running Frame on a Solaris system on a GNOME desktop. ?The GNOME >> desktop preferences fonts do not affect the font of anything in Frame - >> not the menus, >> not the default text size in the window, not the size of the initial >> Frame menu box. >> >> How can I increase the font size of menu items and dialog box fonts from >> within Frame? >> >> I can increase the font size where I type, but I am having difficulty >> seeing >> the fonts in dialog boxes. The File Open dialog box is particularly >> tricky, since >> it is the first one that comes up, and its font size is minute. >> >> In EPIC, you can pass the fonts to the application by running the >> following command >> in a shell: >> >> epic -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 >> >> When I try that with Frame, the format of the font is not recognized: >> >> maker -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14 >> >> Frame returns the message: >> **Warning: Cannot convert string >> "encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:16" to type FontStruct ** >> >> So, what is the magic format where a font encoding is readable by Frame, >> and then Frame can turn it >> into a FontStruct that Frame recognizes? >> >> Thanx for any pointers, >> Sharon >> _______________________________ >> ? ? > > Look for the PDF or .fm document "Customizing Frame Products" in the > onlinemanuals directory in your FM installation tree. It may be in the > fminit directory. I believe that Unix FM is the only FM version that > permits customizing the fonts in dialog boxes. I may be wrong on this > - it may only customize fonts in catalog titles, like Character Format > catalog and Paragraph Format catalog, and menu titles and options. > > Many unix FM properties are configurable via x-resources. I seem to > recall that an x-resource can set fonts. > > Another approach is to lower your screen resolution to show less real > estate at a larger size. > > HTH > > Regards, > > Peter > __________________ > Peter Gold > KnowHow ProServices >?? _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers. To unsubscribe send a blank email to http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. 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