I think we're talking about the box sizes rather than the font sizes.
Those can just be hard-coded to a certain size in pixels, then the
font can be measured to fit into those boxes. That's the approach
that Pd-extended has been doing since 0.41 or 0.40, I forget which.
That's how it works in Pd vanilla 0.43 too.
To handle font size differences, the box sizing needs to be handled in
Tcl, as well as the mouse and click handling. For something like
clicking to edit an object box, Pd only needs to know what the new
text is once the editing is done.
Roman, I think the thing to do is to measure the boxes for each
release in question on each platform so we know where the problem
lies. That's what I did back in the day to make the boxes the same
pixel sizes.
.hc
On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Last I checked things were completely inconsistent and no version
("normal"
or extended) got the same font sizes across platforms. If anyone can
figure out how to make that work robustly I'm all for it. One
headache
is that I've tried to make PD use natively available fonts which
everyone
will have - and there simply don't seem to be natively available
fonts with
comparable sizes between Pc/Mac/linux.
cheers
Miller
I'll check that again. It seemed to me that the Pd-vanilla looked
very
much the same on OS X and Linux, at least since 0.43. I haven't
checked
Windows yet. Also I had the impression that Pd-vanilla doesn't have a
different appearance across different Linuxes anymore. I remember it
being dependent on some DPI setting, but I haven't encountered that
issue anymore.
I tried to get these changes into vanilla, but I guess Miller didn't
want them. I've already spent a lot of time on it, so I've moved on
since it works in Pd-extended. There should be a whole history of
the
discussion on pd-dev, i.e. the details of the issues. I don't
remember them, I'm sure it was some annoying technical details.
Also, you can see the changes that pd-extended makes to puredata but
looking at the pd-extended.git in the 'patch_series' branch.
Thanks for the explanations.
Roman
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