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Re: Conundrum [message #11653 is a reply to message #11638]

Tue, 19 May 1998 00:00

mgs
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Registered: March 1995

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In article <3561ED2F.7564AC8B@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>, "J.D. Smith"
<jdsmith@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote:

> David Fanning wrote:
>>
>> J.D. Smith (jdsmith@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu) writes:
...
>>> Thoughts on general cross-platform font selection schemes for
>>> widget fonts (not graphics fonts)?
>>
>> Uh, let the end user worry about widget fonts. They are
>> going to change it anyway (or *can*, which often amounts
>> to the same thing), no matter what you choose. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>
> Sounds good to me. I thought something like that... what I wonder is
> why doesn't it open and free a pixmap, rather than a real window by
> default. In anycase, if I have an open pixmap window, it will work just
> fine. My problem with widget fonts is, e.g. for display of formatted
> text. Non-uniform spacing fonts are very rude. I should probably try
> to implement things in a table widget or something, but what a lot of
> overhead just to show some columns of data!

And if your requirements don't allow leaving it up to the user you can set
up a list of fonts that you can use throughout your applications. I have a
couple functions that manage fonts for me. I will add them to my web site
tonight (5/19/98) since they're a little too long to post here.

--
Mike Schienle Interactive Visuals
mgs@sd.cybernex.net http://ww2.sd.cybernex.net/~mgs/

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