Re: [Bitpim-devel] Phonebook display fonts on Macs too small

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

>   Sorry to get pissy, but it's horribly frustrating when something is
> supposed to be "cross-platform" and you end up having to put in so many
> little exceptions for this that and the other thing. 

They day you find a perfect piece of software, let us know :-)

> If there are
> platform differences, it SHOULD be handled transparently by the
> relevant libraries, not the end applications. With wxWidgets this is
> simply not the case, and it's infuriating at times.

It *IS* being handled transparently by wxWidgets.  wxWidgets even
goes so far as to correct the base sizes for each platform so
that the same HTML looks the same on all platforms.  (Quite frankly
if you ask for a 10 point font on the different platforms while
using a 17" monitor, you will get different physical sizes hence
the workaround in wxWidgets).

However the wxWidgets API doesn't provide a GetFonts API.  I
dug into my old email and found that it does provide the
settings as #defines which I quoted.

However wxPython doesn't export those symbols, due to an oversight.
I worked with Robin on this and he will be exporting them
in the next wxPython release.

>  Call me stupid, but if the base sizes are defined in a given
> platform's header file, why are they being redefined with arbitrary
> values in bphtml.py? Or is this something else entirely??

They are not arbitrary values in bphtml.  They are supposed to be
*identical* to the ones in wxWidgets because of wxPython not
exporting the values.

Roger