[Sugar-devel] Differing font sizes on the XO and in Sugar Emulation

[James Simmons]

Tomeu,

Did you have a chance to try my Activity now that it has a font 
problem?  Any ideas?

Also, is there some way I could tell if my Activity was running on an XO 
and adjust the font size accordingly?

James Simmons


Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:26, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>   
>> This weekend I attempted to resolve a bug report on Read Etexts where
>> there was some strange behavior with font resizing.  When I investigated
>> I remembered how this bug came to be.
>>
>> It seems that if you DON'T explicitly set a font in your Sugar Activity
>> it will look identical in sugar-emulator and on an XO.  Unfortunately if
>> you *do* set a font what looks like a reasonable sized font in the
>> development environment will be a MUCH LARGER font on the XO.  My goal
>> with Read Etexts was to give a text view with the default font and allow
>> the users to make it larger or smaller, just like Read has the Zoom In
>> and Zoom Out feature.  Now there does not seem to be a way to find out
>> what font a text viewer is currently using.  All you can do, from what I
>> have seen, is to set it to a font and then change the font you have
>> set.  I wanted to set it to "sans 12".  Looks good in sugar-emulator,
>> ridiculously large on the XO.
>>     
>
> Hmm, setting a fixed font size of 10 should give you the same font
> size as used anywhere in the UI.
>
>   
>> Any insight on this problem would be appreciated.  I tried the following
>> code from one of Tomeu's postings:
>>
>> from sugar.graphics import style
>> pango.FontDescription("sans %d" % style.zoom(72))
>>     
>
> We don't need to scale ourselves any more because Pango is already
> doing it for us.
>
> In the last soas image I have (almost one month old), the XO has a
> very small font size, not sure why but I will try a more recent one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>   
>> It did not have any effect.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
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