[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Closing #31777 as duplicate of this. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Postscript: I read a week or so ago that a new Windows 10 font chooser will have this feature. There was not much detail and I believe it is currently only part of the Preview package. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

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[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset 6a2957de08e0c2d73f3124d12874b408cda4633d by Terry Jan Reedy (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6': bpo-31860: Make the font sample in the IDLE font configuration dialog editable. (GH-4106) (#4154) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6a2957

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset ed6554c487fb2403bc88be6deee611c7a4171d33 by Terry Jan Reedy (Serhiy Storchaka) in branch 'master': bpo-31860: Make the font sample in the IDLE font configuration dialog editable. (#4106) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed6554c487fb2403b

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Makes sense. I guess I didn't think of it being frozen because I was thinking of it being more like the Recent Files list, but pre-populated if it were empty. As you said, probably not worth the effort. :-) -- _

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Cheryl, thanks for explaining, in part, why I don't want to do this ;-). Using the the current .def, .cfg system would mean that the default sample would be frozen. I want to be able to change it. -- ___ Python t

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: I don't know if saving the changes would be too difficult. 1. Create a new config file for the text (I think it would clutter the existing config files, but could also add it there). 2. Load font_sample_text from the config file. 3. In apply(), write the te

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Thanks for the patch. Adding the feature is somehow easier than I expected. After moving the sample text to module level, which I considered doing before, saving edits for the duration of an IDLE session turned out to also be easy. With 11 point Lucida Co

[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

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[issue31860] IDLE: Make font sample editable

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka : The proposed patch makes the font sample in IDLE font configuration dialog editable. This allows users to test fonts with arbitrary samples. -- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE messages: 304909 nosy: serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy priority: no