[Sugar-devel] Best Practices for setting font and widget size

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Best practice is not hardcode, but measure the text and set the font size
as needed.
You can use Pango to measure the text.
Example code in Memorize activity:

https://github.com/godiard/memorize-activity/blob/master/svgcard.py#L303

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> In this pic
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/T65HVKfDOZg53ESHmipRMfrLAHAoVJKAqxWPQcGD1ywRNF8YF11B65tW-PuN5mlsDdP5GKUzA5giBfG_66Fv7MNsMsEGAAYF3t6pobEPNXeUNQITv9D-WqzyiY8XGeJcWS_nc48f6X11DzcVvrQBduktjaIGrGZ5F2HYolfbTTmRrfHjFR7fOUSqID3tLOWpIgRxGWAbwoDz4ywCFbl79LDyqUUI1xHg1NRdjO_1q1tUA0Fcq6NfAhSipwMayLL6GBUjmNQB9rjGyN_UQXcbEhoy1x_9X4wZARcLChWp5SrBuWerQIjbBmydloiYGtWLz-rF1JHn43KDA-ctpTfz71yEhQi-e1_iVaghHeEUDTthLJVkFFHGNkF7GWdWZ0H6c2p38_akz2UoI5sWnmZ2uQeOhaApZqUFOv1tjb7iHk77zNWhig7KjjCrjJXg9qTrQxVJ4qYxwNtVowr1sakx_yW0Let3ytvnbOcinGhcdOrsQ84RkmOFxkVcJyCgfu9OMZlxwSQMh0yRIdyMso4BXiSOPuZQ11n4RIO2ZARUDugs1KX35CloKjlYHA99MZs44_KEQlRCAuOk328HwgRu1XU_VBmEkN0Q=w1624-h913-no> you
> can see the font size and the grid below are way too large for the screen
> of a XO-4, this looked just fine on my laptop(at 1920 x 1080)
> Assuming this is a common issue, what is the general way this is handled
> in a sugar activity or should I just hard code the sizes to  a lower value
> and not worry about multiple screen sizes?
>
> with regards,
> Yash Agarwal
>
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