Re: [hpoj-devel] Re: xojpanel 20 character patch

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Saturday 21 April 2001 02:28 am, David Paschal wrote:

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> Actually, now that you mention it, I think it looks a little odd to use a
> proportional-space font in this context, especially in the middle of the
> string.  It might look better if you went back to a fixed-space font.
> It wasn't as obvious on your one example on your webpage, but I did notice
> it a lot more when looking at many different messages.
>

I attached a patch that should fix it, though it's hard to guess which fonts 
a user will have installed. The "Courier" font is specified now. Hopefully, 
most users will have it or something similar. Courier displays as fixed-width 
on my system.

If a system can use any of the truetype fixed-width fonts, they look a lot 
better than Courier. I listed several as alternate choices in a change to 
ojstatus.cpp. 

The older versions of Qt don't seem to like truetype fonts.

On another subject, there now seems to be an intermittent scroll timing 
problem in xojpanel's "lcd". It appears to be related to the printer polling 
code in (or called by) XojPanel::getPrinterLCDMessages() . When I commented 
out the polling code and substituted fake Line1 and Line2 strings, the 
problem went away. I don't think my changes caused it, but I'll keep looking. 
Is there something in the ptal code that could result in a delay in returning 
the lcd strings?

-- 
Joe