🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <10378@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>+-- jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>| In article <10289@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>| )I think I'll just stick to topaz8/9.  It simpler.
>| 
>| Try to use the default system font, wherever possible.  In the future (near
>| future), this will be different than topaz 8/9.  
>| It will be important to respect the default font to work nicely on higher
>| resolution displayes, and with the user's choice, esp. when he can choose
>| proportional fonts.
>
>Seems like a good idea, but it may not be practical without better
>tools.  If the user picks diamond/20, for example, all my menu's are
>going to plunge off the bottom of the screen unless I add more code
>to make them wrap around.  Requesters would have to be formatted on
>the fly, rather than built statically as they are now.  It would be
>a really good thing, I agree, but it seems like more trouble than it's
>worth right now.

	Menus are a tough one.  You REALLY don't want them going over any
edge.  Also, the width/height depend on the font.  Either use dynamic
menu-creation code, or use a specified font for now.  1.3 Notepad has dynamic
menu code, but only for the fonts menu (yes, I know, we need a font
requester).  Play with it and a LOAD of fonts and Setfont to get ideas
about dynamic menus.

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup