2014-09-05 12:13 GMT+02:00 Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works>: > Thanks everyone for all your follow up messages - I've learned quite a lot > from such a simple question!!! >
It was a pleasure to have a look and learn a bit more as well :) > > 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? > Yes. I'd say, looking at the code, we need to do two things: change the #fontName:size: method, and change the #emphasis: method so that it takes an emphasis object and not a code. Thierry > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
