[Newbies] Re[3]: [UI] chang tab font in a flap ?

work open workopen at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 03:22:27 UTC 2007


Hello Herbert,

It's so kind of you ! I am newly to Squeak, and want to try Samlltalk, I
feel friendly and helpful in Squeak community. Vielen Dank !

tonyliu.

2007/11/10, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>:
>
> Hello Tony,
>
> HK> Trying to help you how to fish, cause in the time I have I didn't
> HK> manage to do it myself.
> HK> I'll try later to make it work and report here.
> I'll write up my findings as I go along: (in the end there is a
> solution but I think most important is you see methods to find out
> something.)
>
> Browsing IconicButton (which is what the Flaps contain) it seems to me
> that the label is not a Text or a TextMorph so it doesn't have a font
> you can change.
>
> I guess from looking at the code that an Iconic button uses a
> StringMorph to get the Form of its label and then adds that graphic to
> its own graphic.
>
> So the task seems twofold:
> 1- Find out which font is used for building the labels of the icons in
> the flaps
> 2- Find out how to rebuild the flaps.
>
> The second task was easier. I used the method finder to look for
> methods with "flaps" in their name.
>
> addStandardFlaps looked promising but the comment to the method said
> that the method itself does not display the flaps. But browsing for
> senders of addStandardFlaps revealed the class side method
> reinstateDefaultFlaps of Flaps class.
>
> So Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps in a Workspace removes all flaps and
> rebuilds them. Give it some time when you run it the first time.
>
> So next I copied the Preferences class method chooseFlapsFont to a
> workspace, changed every self to Preferences and made it set the
> button font. This looked like:
>
> Preferences chooseFontWithPrompt: 'Choose a flapsIcons font' translated
> andSendTo: Preferences withSelector: #setButtonFontTo:
> highlight: Preferences standardButtonFont
>
> But rebuilding the flaps with
>
> Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps
>
> still gave me the old fonts.
>
> So I think we need to solve a third problem, that's to regenerate the
> IconicButtons in the Flaps and maybe step 2 from above isn't needed at
> all.
>
> After I followed that false trail for a while I found in IconicButton
>
> initializeWithThumbnail:withLabel:andColor:andSend:to:
>
> and in this method I saw that IconicButton uses standardEtoysFont
> which can be set from the world menu as described in earlier mails.
>
> That finally did it. I had an interesting time finding it out.
>
> To sum it up:
> In the world menu set the etoys font to what you like in your Flaps.
> Then in a Workspace run:
> Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps
>
> Then reset the etoys font to what you like for etoys.
>
> The first time you use the new Flaps you probably have to pull them
> out manually to accommodate the wider font.
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net
>
>
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