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Fonts in R/view

 [1/5] from: hallvard::ystad::helpinhand::com at: 6-Dec-2001 16:18


Hi I just installed R/View on my OpenBSD, and the fonts are really too big. As I start up, the navigation bar to the left has so big characters that I cannot see the whole "Rebol.com" text under the top icon. As I click Sites , all the sites' names flood into each other. Looked for a setting, but didn't find one. Someone just looked for font changing on a linux machine, (seems to be exactly the same problem,) any luck with that? Arnaud? I followed the two threads I could find on the subject, but there didn't seem to be any solution to it there... Anyone got a clue? ~H

 [2/5] from: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 6-Dec-2001 17:04


Hi Halvard, maybe this will help you: http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m17310.html regards Cyphre

 [3/5] from: hallvard:ystad:helpinhand at: 7-Dec-2001 14:17


Thanks, Cyphre. As I said, I looked into those previous threads. Obviously, I didn't test your little hack thoroughly enough. I testet it again just now, but found some strange results. This time, I copied your complete block of proposed font changes into my user.r file, and found some of the settings affected the fonts, others not, and the different settings affected different parts of the view startup screen: - The size setting affected the menu line (User / Goto / Help / Quit), the information text in the middle (everything but "Welcome to REBOL/View") and Connected to the Internet at... at the bottom. - Align affected the red text with user information (not the black counterparts) and "Connected to the Internet..." - Color affected the menu line and the little word "View" in the bottom left corner - Valign, finally, affected the texts I wanted to change, "REBOL.com", Local and "Console" in the navigation bar to the left, as well as the text behind the icons in the main window once one starts to navigate. I leaned back and gave it a though. Of course: your script is manipulating the default font! (Of course, of course, since that was indeed its mission.) So it really only affects the _base_ for the fonts in the R/View startup screen, and I need to change the _used_ fonts. I probed around a bit in the system/view object, but I'm not that familiar with it, so I didn't find anything. Does anyone know the path to the fonts in the navigation bar to the left? And will I be able to change it from the user.r script? Any ideas welcome. ~H Dixit Cyphre (Thursday 06.12.2001, kl. 17.04): Hi Halvard, maybe this will help you: http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m17310.html regards Cyphre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hallvard Ystad" <[hallvard--ystad--helpinhand--com]> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:18 PM Subject: [REBOL] Fonts in R/view
> Hi > > I just installed R/View on my OpenBSD, and the fonts are really too big.
As
> I start up, the navigation bar to the left has so big characters that I > cannot see the whole "Rebol.com" text under the top icon. As I click > "Sites", all the sites' names flood into each other. Looked for a
setting,
> but didn't find one. > > Someone just looked for font changing on a linux machine, (seems to be > exactly the same problem,) any luck with that? Arnaud? I followed the
two
> threads I could find on the subject, but there didn't seem to be any > solution to it there...
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> [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.

 [4/5] from: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 7-Dec-2001 17:15


Hello Halvard, ...
> This time, I copied your complete block of proposed font changes into my > user.r file, and found some of the settings affected the fonts, others
not,
> and the different settings affected different parts of the view startup > screen:
yes, because RT are using own font sizes, the patch just sets the default font object so any other script can change these parameters in future...I think there is not any better solution for that. You have to change directly the code of RT's desktop to fix these custom font sizes...
> - The size setting affected the menu line (User / Goto / Help / Quit),
the
> information text in the middle (everything but "Welcome to REBOL/View")
and
> "Connected to the Internet at..." at the bottom. > - Align affected the red text with user information (not the black
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> mission.) So it really only affects the _base_ for the fonts in the R/View > startup screen, and I need to change the _used_ fonts.
Yes, that's it ;)
> I probed around a > bit in the system/view object, but I'm not that familiar with it, so I > didn't find anything.
You have to search in ctx-viewtop object (or block if you don't start desktop)
> Does anyone know the path to the fonts in the navigation bar to the left? > And will I be able to change it from the user.r script? Any ideas welcome. >
hmm...if you mean to change fonts of the icons(rebol.com, local, console) on the left side it's easy: just put these two lines in your user.r: ---------snip------------ ctx-viewtop: context ctx-viewtop ctx-viewtop/dtc-icon/font/size: 5 ; or your favorite font-size --------------snip----------------- regards, Cyphre

 [5/5] from: hallvard:ystad:helpinhand at: 8-Dec-2001 11:30


Thanks, Cyphre, I finally got it. ...but I also got more funny results, and this time, I cannot see any reason for them. Here you go: ctx-viewtop: context ctx-viewtop ; assumed in all later examples ctx-viewtop/dtc-icon/font/size: 5 this was your original example. It made no difference on my reb-desktop. When I went into console-mode and probed ctx-viewtop/dtc-icon/font, I got: make object! [ name: "helvetica" style: none size: 5 color: 0.0.0 offset: 2x2 space: 0x0 align: 'center valign: 'bottom shadow: none colors: 0.0.0 ] although the font size wasn't anything near 5 pt. So I tried ctx-viewtop/dtc-icon/font/style: none still with no luck. Probing the font object gave the same result, except the size was now back to 11. Then I tried ctx-viewtop/dtc-icon/font/style: 'bold A shot in the dark, really, since the boldness of these fonts was the very attribute I wanted to get rid of (along with the size). But this time, it worked! Probing the object showed it was now bold, 11pt (and I believe that was correct. When I first probed it, and it claimed to be 11pt / plain style, it obviously lied!) Why this font responds to setting the style to bold, but not to setting the style to none or setting the size to 5, beats me. But it worked, and I'm happy. Thanks again. ~H Dixit Cyphre (Friday 07.12.2001, kl. 17.15):

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