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Re: button sizing, sun vs sgi [message #6999 is a reply to message #6910]

Wed, 04 September 1996 00:00

Tim Patterson
Messages: 65
Registered: October 1995

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Jeff Hall wrote:
>
> I have developed an application on a Sun/Solaris,
> but when I run it on an SGI the buttons and text
> in the buttons are too big.
>
> There is also a sizing problem on the PowerMac.
>
> How can I control the button & font size of the
> widgets on the different platforms?

Sounds like something similar to the problem I was having
with different machines having different resolution fonts.
You can specify the font to be used for widgets (look
in the docs for the exact method), but the trick is knowing
which font point size to use.

My solution was:

The user can define a specified environment variable to
be either 10,12 or 14. If this env. var. exists and has
a sensible value, then that's the font size I use for
the widgets.

If the variable isn't set up properly, then I check the
value of !d.y_ch_size. If this is less than 10, then I
set the font size to 12, otherwise I set it to 10. This
appears to work and keep the widgets reasonably to a
similar size on 100 dpi and 75 dpi font workstations.

Tim

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		button sizing, sun vs sgi By: Jeff Hall on Tue, 03 September 1996 00:00
		Re: button sizing, sun vs sgi By: David Foster on Thu, 05 September 1996 00:00
		Re: button sizing, sun vs sgi By: Tim Patterson on Wed, 04 September 1996 00:00

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