Is it possible to customize fonts in Shout?

Aaron Reichow revaaron at bitquabit.com
Tue Nov 14 01:31:12 UTC 2006


malex-

Short answer: Yeah, that is doable. But, unless you've just missed an  
option somewhere, it has to be done manually.

Long answer:  I don't know about Shout- I've never used it. But,  
there are Squeak apps that are a lot like any other GUI apps- when a  
ton of work hasn't been done on the GUI there is oftentimes a lack of  
customization.  In Squeak, sometimes an app that doesn't have a font  
customization option will honor the default text font, list font,  
etc. But other times, these apps do not.  It sounds like Shout is  
such an app.

Unless you just aren't looking well and you've missed a font setting,  
the only way it can be changed is by changing something in the  
source. Now, that sounds a lot worse than it is- fonts are pretty  
simple in Squeak.  But, if you don't know Smalltalk (yet!), don't  
know how or where to look, and aren't comfortable changing source  
even if you found it, it might sound a little scary.

I could help you with this possibly, depending on what we can  
arrange. Reply to me privately. Or, stop by the #squeak IRC chat  
channel- you can get to it via the site below.  I am on there as  
"rev", but if I'm not there you could always ask the channel in  
general, as there are often people willing to help.

http://www.bitquabit.com/rev/squeakChat/

Regards,
Aaron

On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:41 AM, malex wrote:

>
> Hi everyone.
>
>   I'm a complete beginner in Squeak (with previous experience in  
> Java) and
> I'm trying to set up a convenient development environment. After  
> one day of
> pain (errors, package installs over and over again etc) the thing  
> seems to
> work, highlights code and completes methods. The only thing I could  
> not fix
> till now is the font Shout uses to render strings - it is possible  
> to do
> that? If so how?
>   Thanks a lot! :)
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