Re: [Tuxpaint-users] New to list, but not to TuxPaint

[Anat C. <cas...@gm...>]

Hi,

Thank you both for your active engagement with our tuxpaint issues!
We have both problems, actually. But resizing the targets would be a good
start. I mean, those keys are too small even for my fingers when I use the
tablet in touch mode (and I have decently slender fingers)! We'll try to
memorize the keyboard key locations if we cannot see them until you find a
different option... haha

As for the other two problems: thank you for pointing out the
documentation. I was able to work through the "starters." Of course the
school district created horrible permissions for all those tux paint
subfolders and it took me a while to circumvent that (when the school owns
the tablets, they tend to lock students out of pretty much everything other
than the downloads folder). On windows 10 there is something a little like
a unix softlink, so I had to change 'starters' to soft-link point to
another folder for which I did have permissions. But this seems like it's
tenuous and the next time we update tux paint it is likely to break.
I know in the configurations one is able to change the folder in which the
artwork is saved. Is it also possible to point 'starters' to a different
folder?

Thanks for all your help!

Anat




On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:43 PM Pere Pujal i Carabantes <
per...@gm...> wrote:

> El dt. 25 de 08 de 2020 a les 22:04 -0700, en/na Bill Kendrick va
> escriure:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 08:00:14PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 08:30:19AM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes
> wrote:
> > > > El dj. 20 de 08 de 2020 a les 18:38 -0700, en/na Anat & Aviv va
> > > > escriure:
> > <snip>
> > > > > Second issue is that no matter how hard I've looked into the
> configuration options,
> > > > > I've been unable to find a way to resize the teeny tiny keyboard
> that comes up
> > > > > when we want to use text. I'm sure it's obvious and there, but
> I've not been able
> > > > > to locate it.
> > > > >
> > > > This is an overdue feature that is not implemented yet, sorry :(
> > >
> > > Pere, I'm going to try to take a stab at this, right now...
> > > I may give up, because I didn't work on the OSK feature, and
> > > it may be too hairy for me. :)
> >
> > Okay, I made a very quick-and-dirty change.  If there is enough
> > room to fit a keyboard with larger, 48x48 buttons, on the
> > current canvas, with the chosen layout, Tux Paint will do so.
> > Otherwise, it will fall back to the smaller, 24x24 buttons.
> >
> > You can see examples here in this tweet:
> > https://twitter.com/TuxPaintTweets/status/1298484446216089600
> >
> > While I was at it, I made the font size used for the buttons
> > slightly larger.  It was 12pt before (24x24 buttons).
> > It is now 16pt on the small keyboard, and 32bpt on the larger
> > keyboard (48x48 buttons).
> >
> > I hope this proves useful!  Any further improvements would probably
> > require a bit of rewriting how things work in there.
> >
> > The commit, for anyone curious:
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/ci/61998e4d00c849a5787a1c6b10ded1ef67d14cf0/
> >
> > -bill!
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Nice, Thanks :)
>
> These days I am currently too tired after day work to do something
> useful.
> I've take a look at the code and noticed a partial workaround that
> could be helpful for the current 0.9.23 version:
>
> scaling up the 5 btnsm_***.png images should render the onscreen
> kerboard bigger, however the font size will not be altered by this
> change.
> So if the problem is to identify the letters this will not prove
> useful, instead if the problem is precision of the eye tracker to point
> to a small button, then it could help.
>
> HTH
> Pere
>
> >
> >
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