[Oberon] Global font change on OLR

[Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net]

Ahhh.  Now you have tasted the power.


On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> Default display size of OLR is (1280-16)x(1024-32). This can be configured
>> via environment variables OWIDTH and OHEIGHT. Negative values are relative
>> to screen size. Or by changing the constants defaultWidth and defaultHeight
>> inside OLR.Display.Mod and recompiling.
>>
>
> Changing the constants defaultWidth and defaultHeight inside
> OLR.Display.Mod and recompiling worked!
> This controlled Oberon OS window size in OLR.
> Renaming Oberon 20 font to 10 also worked!
> This controlled Oberon default font size.
> Now I see big characters. Easy to read.
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
>
> On 04/03/2016 06:40 PM, Peter Matthias wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 03.04.2016 um 05:16 schrieb Srinivas Nayak:
>>
>>> Dear Peter,
>>>
>>> I am worried if a solution to my problem is difficult to achieve. :-(
>>>
>>
>> Oberon misses some years of development...
>>
>> Another surprising thing is that, right now I have OLR as well as
>>> NO alpha installed on Virtualbox.
>>> NO on vbox has resolution of 800*600, configured to vesa 2.0 mode
>>> 800*600*8.
>>> OLR is bigger than that. Don't know how to check the resolution. (looks
>>> like it is 1000+ * 800+)
>>>
>>
>> Default display size of OLR is (1280-16)x(1024-32). This can be
>> configured via environment variables OWIDTH and OHEIGHT. Negative values
>> are relative to screen size. Or by changing the constants defaultWidth and
>> defaultHeight inside OLR.Display.Mod and recompiling.
>>
>> But in both the Oberon, I see small fonts, hard to read!
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't you all suffer from small fonts?
>>>
>>
>> I don't (yet) suffer from it. But that might come soon.
>>
>> Regards,
>>      Peter
>>
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2016 01:07 AM, Peter Matthias wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 02.04.2016 um 12:17 schrieb Srinivas Nayak:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I found OLR easier to use while I am on Linux.
>>>>> I think the font size of OLR Oberon is small.
>>>>> How can I change the font size to a bigger one?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oberon hast the fond, including it's size stored in the text. So there
>>>> is no easy way to change size for existing text. For new text, you can
>>>> make a new line in the System section of Oberon.Text (e.g. below
>>>> TimeDiff line) with DefaultFont = "Oberon14.Scn.Fnt". However, the
>>>> textual system has some problems with non standard Font sizes.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the easiest way would be to rename the font files like
>>>> "System.RenameFiles Oberon10.Scn.Fnt => Oberon8.Snc.Fnt ~"
>>>>
>>>> With the appearance of Retina displays, a general solution is needed.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>      Peter
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