Re: [LAD] Setting fonts in pixels rather than points

On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:53 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: It is like this: If the fontsize for the (mostly decorative) labels is too big, the application window will become absolutely huge and for no apparent reason won't fit on the desktop. This destroys the users experience... Playing it safe and just setting the labels to a small size won't work always either. I can't read the labels in Ardour when run from Gnome without zooming in or changing my normal settings. It works the way I believe it was intended with WindowMaker though. And sometimes you just have reasons to outsmart the Toolkit, the WM, the Desktop, the Theme and the Xconfig (as well as the user having more or less lost control of it all) - to get things done right for the sake of a consistent user experience! Anyways, here is what I do for 'Sans' with a max height of 13 that is to be used for labeling some 16x16 px checkboxes: window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); { GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new ("ABCD EFG HIJKLMNO PQR STUVWXY Za bcde fghijk lmn opqest uvw xyz 123 45 67 890!"); g_object_ref (label); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), label); GtkRequisition rq; int i = 5; char buf[32]; do { sprintf(buf,"%s %2d","Sans",i); gtk_widget_modify_font (label,pango_font_description_from_string (buf)); gtk_widget_size_request ((GtkWidget *)label,&rq); printf("'%7s' h:%3d w:%4d \n",buf,rq.height,rq.width); } while(rq.height < 13 && ++i < 42); label_font = strdup(buf); // <-- gtk_container_remove (GTK_CONTAINER (window), label); }