nanogui: nanogui widget set
Subject:
RE: nanogui widget set
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jun 1999 18:23:27 -0000
Message-Id: <01BEB7F1.8B7B5670.greg@censoft.com>
On Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:17 PM, Alex Holden ####@####.#### wrote:
: On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
: > I think the console fonts will be too large, as nano needs some
: > single-line fonts for dialog use.
:
: Too large in the sense of screen space or memory used?
The nano FONT structure is quite small, so that's not the issue. All
nano fonts have to be converted to this structure, which is close the to bogl
font structure, but uses short rather than long character bitmaps.
The bdf fonts originally distributed with are too "thick." We need
at least one "thin" font, prefereably san serif, that uses about one pixel
per stroke in each character. Try writing some dialog boxes with nano
and you'll see what I mean.
I can't see any
: reason they would be either. The only problem is that none of them are
: proportional.
Proportional is an absolute must, or our nano applications will look
like character-based text apps on a fancy gui.
: It was just a suggestion as to where you could find a lot of non
: proprietory license encumbered fonts, plus you may even be able to adapt
: whatever code it is in the kernel which parses the files to use in your
: own code.
:
I'll take a look at it.
