[GOODIE] Lucy, a small font (was RE: preview of Squeak onVTech Helio)
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at disney.com
Wed Oct 18 17:33:52 UTC 2000
Thanks Jay --
This is what we used to call a "pocket bible font" at PARC. Yours is
very pretty!
Cheers,
Alan
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At 11:16 AM -0400 10/18/00, Jay Carlson wrote:
>Karl Ramberg writes:
>
>> Aaron J Reichow wrote:
>
>> > That's definately good news. For a PDA, I would expect that
>> Morphic would
>> > better suit the display constraints (rather, more easily
>> adapted to), much
>> > better than MVC.
>
>> A scaleable GUI would be really nice so the same apps would look nice
>> and work well on both a big and small screen.
>> For example the browser on the screenshot look a _little_ cramped...
>
>One of my friends said, "that browser seems very...cozy." Clearly, the
>browser as constructed just doesn't work on a screen that small. It needs
>to be broken up into multiple screens, or parts of it replaced with dropdown
>lists, or both. That's the *real* challenge of scalable UIs---appropriate
>syntactic elements change between sizes. I may get a chance to play with
>wall-sized 4000x2500 pixel displays soon, and that's another extreme.
>
>I'm not much of a deep Squeak hacker, so I'm working things that are easy to
>do without in-depth knowledge of the system.
>
>Attached is a changeset that adds a small font, Lucy, to the image. It's
>roughly the same size/density as the standard PalmOS font.
>
>Also attached are two screenshots using the Lucy font. The first shows just
>how little space there is to work with. It's a Workspace sized to 160x160,
>the dimensions of the Helio and PalmOS screens. The second is 320x240,
>which is the size of all the WinCE palm-sized devices.
>
>> I'v been thinking about using the fabrik/ component stuff
>> as a GUI that could be easily extended and modified as you go along.
>> Some more widgets are needed and a way to show / hide the
>> different components.
>
>I need to go look at fabrik again....
>
>Jay
>
>Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="FontSetLucy.1.cs"
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="FontSetLucy.1.cs"
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:FontSetLucy.1.cs (????/----) (0000C10F)
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Lucy160x160.gif (GIFf/ogle) (0000C111)
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Lucy320x240.gif (GIFf/ogle) (0000C112)
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