26 Dec
2009
26 Dec
'09
6:49 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jens M Andreasen
<jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se> 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.
have you used the font scaler in ardour? its true that it change
(almost) all text, rather than parts of it.
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:
jens - there's a faster way to do this. rather than using widgets,
create Pango layouts and then use pango_layout_get_ink_extents(). in
c++:
void
Gtkmm2ext::get_ink_pixel_size (Glib::RefPtr<Pango::Layout> layout,
int& width,
int& height)
{
Pango::Rectangle ink_rect = layout->get_ink_extents ();
width = (ink_rect.get_width() + PANGO_SCALE / 2) / PANGO_SCALE;
height = (ink_rect.get_height() + PANGO_SCALE / 2) / PANGO_SCALE;
}