[L2Ork-dev] pd-l2ork font sizes

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Hey Albert,

Many thanks for your kind words regarding pd-l2ork. Really appreciate it!

Regarding your question, I did not change the default font sizes in 
iemguis so it is likely that the pd/extended did this in the 0.43 branch 
which we haven't yet integrated into pd-l2ork since the 0.43 codebase is 
still a moving target. I suspect changing this will be probably either 
per-object specific or located somewhere inside iem_all_guis.h. I can 
definitely investigate further when I get a chance. That said, this 
should have no bearing on loading existing patches since patches save 
iemgui objects' font sizes so patches made in other versions of pd 
should still look the same inside pd-l2ork.

HTH

Best wishes,

Ico

On 05/18/2012 04:08 PM, Albert Graef wrote:
> Hi Ico (and everybody else on this list),
>
> Dave's most recent Pd article in Linux Journal prompted me to finally
> take a look at pd-l2ork, and I must say that I like it very much. Thanks
> to the Tk 8.5 themeing support, it looks much better than either
> Pd-extended or vanilla, has all the nifty GUI improvements of
> pd-extended, and the ability to graphically resize GUI elements and gop
> areas is something that I hoped to see in Pd for a very long time.
>
> That said, I do have a question concerning the font sizes of the IEM GUI
> elements. I'm running the 20120407 developer snapshot of pd-l2ork on
> Ubuntu 11.04, using Tcl/Tk 8.5. As the attached screenshots show, the
> labels of the IEM GUI elements are rendered much larger than in either
> vanilla or pd-extended. This appears to be the same no matter which
> default font I choose with the -font-face command line option.
>
> The larger fonts do look nice to me, since they make the IEM GUI
> elements stick out a bit, but obviously this may cause problems with
> patches created with vanilla or pd-extended, since the bigger labels may
> not fit when the patch is used with pd-l2ork.
>
> My question is, is this intentional or an accident? If the former, is
> there a way to globally scale the font sizes of the IEM GUI elements, so
> that they appear in the same size as for vanilla/pd-extended without
> having to modify the patches? I've been looking at the Tk GUI code in
> pd-l2ork, but the font selection logic there is rather involved and I
> wasn't able to figure it out myself so far. Thus any help would be very
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Albert
>
>
>
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Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
Composition, Music Technology
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Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
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