[squeak-dev] [Newbies] What font do you use in macOS ?

Nicola Mingotti nmingotti at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 10:12:12 UTC 2019



Guys, 

The red box around the font which I have shown in the previous email disappears if I de-select the preference "Subpixel font rendering".

I have no idea why it works, but it works. (in macOS, Squeak 5.2)

bye
n.


> On Dec 23, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I guess this task is still a bit too advanced for me.
> 
> I have new silly and more urgent problems to solve:
> 
> 1] I restarted with a clean image, try to re-configure it as I like and in the meanwhile document how I am adding the Roboto Mono font. The problem is this time I see red boxes around the font :( [see attached image] 
> 
> 2] When I press backspace many times instead of the expected behavior (cancel previous character) the Tool menu opens. I hate this deeply and I can't figure out where it comes from :( 
> 
> This happens only on the mac, never saw in the Linux release. 
> 
> till now the only modification I made to the shortcuts was the following; to prevent Ctrl-Cmd to open unwanted windows [e.g. Tools ] (I use that sequence to move from a desktop to another as: Ctrl+Ctrl+(Left|Right)Arrow) ).
> -------------------- DockingBarMorph >> filterEvent: for: -------
> "add after line: "
> 		^ aKeyboardEvent ignore "hit!"].
> 
> "PART TO ADD "	
>      "Transcript show: 'keyValue: ', (aKeyboardEvent keyValue) asString; cr. "
>      "If it is pressed Ctrl-Cmd, then discard the event."
>      "Ctrl -> code: 59. Ctrl+Cmd -> code: 55. Ignore here when Ctrl+Cmd is pressed. " 
>      aKeyboardEvent keyValue = 55 
> 	 ifTrue: [^ aKeyboardEvent].
> 
> 
> 
> bye
> Nicola
> 
> 
> <box-around-font.png>
> 
> 
>> On Dec 23, 2019, at 12:59 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org <mailto:tim at rowledge.org>> wrote:
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>>> On 2019-12-22, at 3:09 PM, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com <mailto:nmingotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Tim,
>>> 
>>> sorry, I see the email only now. 
>>> 
>>> I would discard the Elvish hypothesis, will try to consider the endianness ;) 
>> 
>> That is by far the more likely hypothesis. Time to dig into the code that loads the font glyphs and maybe the file format specs? 
>> 
>> 
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org <mailto:tim at rowledge.org>; http://www.rowledge.org/tim <http://www.rowledge.org/tim>
>> Strange OpCodes: NBRM: Unconditional No BRanch Multiple
>> 
>> 
>> 
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