what is the status of the font rendering

Brad Fuller brad at bradfuller.com
Fri Apr 20 23:48:07 UTC 2007


Andrew Tween wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 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?
>   

yeah, that menu works. Here's what I mean:

http://bradfuller.com/access/setfontmenu.ogg

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