Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Tim Jones
What if you chafe the font size to 10 on the Mac side? That always works for me. Tim On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: > Thanks Kevin > > So what do you suggest to make it render compatibly on both platforms. > Do we need to remove font="Times 8 bold" from mytext as follo

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Tim Jones
On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 2/14/14, 10:21 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: >> Hi Kevin >> >> On Windows it looks like the following attachment. >> >> regards >> Bhaskar > > Thank you. As I expected, that is simply the difference in the font rendering > engines on both p

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Tim Jones
Stupid Apple autocorrect - that should have been “change” not “chafe” :) Tim On Feb 14, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Tim Jones wrote: > What if you chafe the font size to 10 on the Mac side? That always works for > me. > > Tim > > On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: > >> Thanks Ke

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:50:13 +0530 Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: > Hello > > Thanks Michael for the suggestions. > > I tried inserting root.tk.call('tk', 'scaling', '-displayof', '.', > root.winfo_fpixels('1i') / 72.0) before adding any children to the > root. with this you "change" the applic

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Bhaskar Chaudhary
Thanks Tim/Kevin "What if you chafe the font size to 10 on the Mac side" Seems like this suggestion by Tim is a better way to do this. But then there will have to be different code for different platform. thanks Bhaskar On 2/14/14, Tim Jones wrote: > What if you chafe the font size to 10 on

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 2/14/14, 10:47 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: mytext = Text(root, background='#101010', foreground="#D6D6D6", borderwidth=18, relief='sunken',width=16, height=5) Does that render properly on Mac. Yes--without specifying a font or size, Tkinter simply uses the default setting for the platform

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Bhaskar Chaudhary
Thanks Kevin So what do you suggest to make it render compatibly on both platforms. Do we need to remove font="Times 8 bold" from mytext as follows: mytext = Text(root, background='#101010', foreground="#D6D6D6", borderwidth=18, relief='sunken',width=16, height=5) Does that render properly on Ma

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 2/14/14, 10:21 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: Hi Kevin On Windows it looks like the following attachment. regards Bhaskar Thank you. As I expected, that is simply the difference in the font rendering engines on both platforms. 8 point Times Bold is as unreadable on Word on the Mac is it is

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 2/14/14, 9:44 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: The only place I specify a font is on this line: mytext = Text(root, background='#101010', foreground="#D6D6D6", borderwidth=18, relief='sunken',width=16, height=5, font="Times 8 bold" ) Well, now I'm confused. I translated the code to Tcl and ran i

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Bhaskar Chaudhary
Thanks Kevin The only place I specify a font is on this line: mytext = Text(root, background='#101010', foreground="#D6D6D6", borderwidth=18, relief='sunken',width=16, height=5, font="Times 8 bold" ) I am using native Aqua version as I don't explicitly change it anywhere. I am not sure of what yo

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 2/14/14, 9:20 AM, Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: Any more suggestions on how to correct this issue will be really appreciated. A few observations: 1. That font looks pixellated, which means it's a bitmap font. Are you using the native Aqua version of Tk or an X11-based one? Bitmaps fonts can st

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-14 Thread Bhaskar Chaudhary
Hello Thanks Michael for the suggestions. I tried inserting root.tk.call('tk', 'scaling', '-displayof', '.', root.winfo_fpixels('1i') / 72.0) before adding any children to the root. I also tried using negative size value ("Times -8 bold") as suggested. Neither of the two made any difference on

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:49:31 +0530 Bhaskar Chaudhary wrote: > Hi > > The following piece of code displays correctly on Windows PC but it > displays all messed up in OS X (10.9.1 and others) as shown in > attachment below. (...) > > Any reasons why it shows the way it does on Mac. > Thanks.

[Tkinter-discuss] Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-02-11 Thread Bhaskar Chaudhary
Hi The following piece of code displays correctly on Windows PC but it displays all messed up in OS X (10.9.1 and others) as shown in attachment below. from Tkinter import * root = Tk() root.geometry('142x280+150+200') root.configure(background='#4D4D4D') mytext = Text(root, background='#101010',