There was a question on Stack overflow regarding this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22604477/how-do-i-make-really-large-text...
And I was going to reply to simply use the font menu to add a new size. This is what that used to look like:
Ugly, maybe, but functional. But this menu is gone, you now get a font dialog, which is missing the option to use an arbitrary size. Can we bring that back?
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The nice thing about the font dialog is you can actually see a sample of what you're selecting. With the menu, not.
From a UI perspective, it seems like a more-complete dialog would be better
-- one dialog which not only allows preview and selection, but also the loading/addition of new fonts..?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.dewrote:
There was a question on Stack overflow regarding this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22604477/how-do-i-make-really-large-text...
And I was going to reply to simply use the font menu to add a new size. This is what that used to look like:
Ugly, maybe, but functional. But this menu is gone, you now get a font dialog, which is missing the option to use an arbitrary size. Can we bring that back?
- Bert -
On 27.03.2014, at 15:47, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
The nice thing about the font dialog is you can actually see a sample of what you're selecting. With the menu, not.
This makes at most sense for Font families but not for sizes…
From a UI perspective, it seems like a more-complete dialog would be better -- one dialog which not only allows preview and selection, but also the loading/addition of new fonts..?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote: There was a question on Stack overflow regarding this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22604477/how-do-i-make-really-large-text...
And I was going to reply to simply use the font menu to add a new size. This is what that used to look like:
Ugly, maybe, but functional. But this menu is gone, you now get a font dialog, which is missing the option to use an arbitrary size. Can we bring that back?
- Bert -
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
On 27.03.2014, at 15:47, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
The nice thing about the font dialog is you can actually see a sample of what you're selecting. With the menu, not.
This makes at most sense for Font families but not for sizes…
What do you mean? The dialog shows an exact sample of 26 letters and 10 numbers the user can see prior to "Apply"ing the font.
From a UI perspective, it seems like a more-complete dialog would be better -- one dialog which not only allows preview and selection, but also the loading/addition of new fonts..?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote: There was a question on Stack overflow regarding this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22604477/how-do-i-make-really-large-text...
And I was going to reply to simply use the font menu to add a new size. This is what that used to look like:
Ugly, maybe, but functional. But this menu is gone, you now get a font dialog, which is missing the option to use an arbitrary size. Can we bring that back?
- Bert -
On 27.03.2014, at 15:56, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
On 27.03.2014, at 15:47, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
The nice thing about the font dialog is you can actually see a sample of what you're selecting. With the menu, not.
This makes at most sense for Font families but not for sizes…
What do you mean? The dialog shows an exact sample of 26 letters and 10 numbers the user can see prior to "Apply"ing the font.
I thought in the way of the screenie Bert send. When you display the font names there in the font itself, that makes sense, but not for the sizes.
Regarding the chooser dialog, yes, it misses the possibilty to select arbitrary sizes.
Best -Tobias
Ok, I finally got you. You're talking about like what it does after selecting Appearance... | system fonts...
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
On 27.03.2014, at 15:56, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
On 27.03.2014, at 15:47, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
The nice thing about the font dialog is you can actually see a sample of what you're selecting. With the menu, not.
This makes at most sense for Font families but not for sizes…
What do you mean? The dialog shows an exact sample of 26 letters and 10 numbers the user can see prior to "Apply"ing the font.
I thought in the way of the screenie Bert send. When you display the font names there in the font itself, that makes sense, but not for the sizes.
Regarding the chooser dialog, yes, it misses the possibilty to select arbitrary sizes.
Best -Tobias
Guess we need to add a text pane in the top-right of the FontChooser. Should show the current font size, ought to only allow in numeric chars + return(?) to request setting the size, perhaps some visual feedback if the size is not practical… what else?
Actually I’m not at all sure about how font sizes are working these days. I had to take a quick look while trying to fix a Scratch issue a week or so ago and it all looked a bit convoluted around styles and fonts and sizes and so on.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: BFM: Branch on Full Moon
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