Thanks everyone for all your follow up messages - I’ve learned quite a lot from such a simple question!!!
With regards to the #fontName:size: being not very useful - is that something I should submit a fogbugz for (maybe there is one already there). I’m thinking the Pharo way is to try and eliminate cruft where possible? Tim On 5 Sep 2014, at 10:37, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > As far as I can understand, this is because TextStyle is brain dead code when > it comes to font selection (and fontName:size: is a useless API). > > (and now I can't write code in my Workspace in 4.0 because I get a DNU from > the styler for every key I type :( :( :( ) > > This code correctly select the font. > > Morph new > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: ( > 'Hello World' asMorph > font: (LogicalFont familyName: 'Source Sans Pro' pointSize: 110); > emphasis: TextEmphasis bold emphasisCode); > openInWindow; > color: Color red > > Thierry > > 2014-09-05 10:45 GMT+02:00 PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk>: > Hello > > > > I have played with this on Moose 5.0 (Pharo 3.0 update: #30854) on Windows 7 > Pro. For me, it is necessary to include color:Color red after openInWindow to > get the red background, as Thierry said. There is another puzzle, which is > that the code does not respond in any linear way to changes in the font size. > If you replace size: 75 with any number from 38 upwards, you get the same > size of font. Change the size to 37 and there is a sharp reduction in size, > and it changes in proportion for smaller numbers. Is there something > different about this font? > > > > Peter Kenny > > > > > > From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of > Nicolai Hess > Sent: 05 September 2014 08:19 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] How to create a red box with text in a big font? > > > > 2014-09-05 8:43 GMT+02:00 p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be>: > > Yes there is that annoying thing with windows that set things bacl to white. > Why is that indeed? > > Phil > > > > > > I can not reproduce this with this code: > Morph new > color:Color red; > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: ( > 'Hello World' asMorph > fontName: 'Open Sans' size: 75; > emphasis: TextEmphasis bold emphasisCode); > openInWindow > > The Morph is red! > > > > > > > > Le 4 sept. 2014 23:32, "Thierry Goubier" <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Le 04/09/2014 23:12, kilon alios a écrit : > > but if I try to do openInWindow instead of openInWorld in the end it turns it > to white box , why ? > > > > Adding the morph inside the window changes the morph color to white :( (What > the heck?) > > If the color is changed after the openInWindow, then that works. > > Morph new > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: ( > 'Hello World' asMorph > fontName: 'Open Sans' size: 75; > emphasis: TextEmphasis bold emphasisCode); > openInWindow; > color: Color red > > > Thierry > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Le 04/09/2014 18:18, Tim Mackinnon a écrit : > > Cool - that’s handy to know it works somewhere (and in fact, it was when > playing with GT-Inspector I noticed this - so that solution would work). > > > > I’m still curious how you do it in Morphic? > > Like that: > > > > Morph new > color: Color red; > > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: ( > 'Hello World' asMorph > fontName: 'Open Sans' size: 75; > emphasis: TextEmphasis bold emphasisCode); > openInWorld > > Thierry > > > > > > > Tim > > > > On 4 Sep 2014, at 17:10, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote: > > > > > Using Roassal, I would do: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > v := RTView new. > > s := RTMultiCompositeShape new. > > s add: (RTBox new color: Color red; size: 500). > > s add: (RTLabel new height: 70). > > v add: (s elementOn: 'Hello World'). > > v open > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > <Screen Shot 2014-09-04 at 12.10.14 PM.png> > > > > Cheers, > > Alexandre > > > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > > > > > Hi guys - I’m a bit stumped on how to create things in big text with a set > background colour. I thought I understood - but it just doesn’t seem to work. > I was thinking I could create a container morph, set its background colour > (which works), and then put a StringMorph inside it with a set font. This > last bit I can’t get to work - I can do bold, but not a bigger font size. > I’ve tried different things but am missing the magic sauce - can someone spot > my mistake? Below, I’ve tried using a font name that I can see in the Pharo > settings dialog but it doesn’t work? I also tried using LogicalFont with no > success either. > > tMorph := StringMorph new. > font1 := LogicalFont familyName: 'Arial' pointSize: 24. > > tMorph contents: 'Hello World'; > fontName: 'Open Sans' size: 24; > emphasis: TextEmphasis bold emphasisCode. > > bMorph := Morph new > color: Color red; > addMorph: tMorph. > > bMorph openInWorld. > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
