Re: Tooltip font size again ...
Re: Tooltip font size again ...
- Subject: Re: Tooltip font size again ...
- From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:55:34 -0700
Resolution independence is a lovely feature, but not quite what
I am after (and I am posting this in case I misunderstand it, so
that some wiser person can correct me). Resolution independence
appears to offer a way to scale the drawing of an application's
entire visual interface by a given factor. What I want is a way
to scale just pieces of that interface; namely, its tooltip font
size.
As I understand the planned resolution-independence feature,
the only way to (say) double the tooltip font size would be to
double the scaling factor for the application's entire visual
interface; that's not what I want to do.
To put it slightly differently, some users might wish to set
the size of an application's windows independently of the size
of stuff displayed therein; I am trying to provide that
capability, and failing when it comes to tooltips.
Thus, one user might want to have my application's main
window be 20 cm square on the display, but with large fonts
for text, and with large tooltip fonts; another user might
want a window 20 cm square with small fonts and small tooltip
fonts. I can and do scale the application's own text fonts,
but I cannot presently get at the tooltip font size.
I doubt that my application is going to live or die based
on how it handles tooltips, but it would be neat to be able
to deal with this matter correctly.
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
Am 10.04.2007 um 22:07 schrieb Jay Reynolds Freeman:
I am working on an application -- a programming-language
interpreter -- in which I do provide a range of font sizes for the
main text areas, just to suit such users. I wish there were a way
to increase tooltip size as well, and I would just as soon not have
to re-implement tooltips ab initio to do so. Can anyone suggest any
workarounds or alternative solutions?
You're aware that Apple's plans for resolution independence will
add this feature to all applications in a year or two, right?
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