----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: what is the status of the font rendering


> Andrew Tween wrote:
> >> it doesn't page up and page down the way you might have intended it to.
> >>
> > "FontListMenuMorph>>displayFiltered: evt" doesn't seem to work. At least
> >
> > I bodged together the paging font picker, and it works ok for me on Linux
> > (Fedora & openSUSE).
> > Try clicking on the page up / page down items rather than using the
keyboard.
> > And be patient, it sometimes takes a few seconds to render the next page.
> >
> > All the font picker menus need improving, but the problem is due to the
number
> > of available fonts, not FreeType per se.
> >
> (yeah, I know it's because of the number of fonts presented in the menu.)
>
> I don't see a page up or a page down item. I was able to pick up the
> menu (by selecting between the font listing) and by moving it around I
> can see I end up with one long menu - containing the complete list of
> fonts. Seems rather strange.
> This is the developer's image, maybe that has something to do with it.

The developer's image is ok, I use it myself.
The only menu I have added the page up/down items to is the
Appearance...>>System fonts... from the World menu.
Does that menu work ok for you?

>
> (I'm running gentoo)
>
> Thanks for the work, Andy!
>
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