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HaikuArchives / FontBoy

A small application to show your installed fonts in Haiku
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Hover to zoom characters in Property window #35

Open ddacw opened 6 years ago

ddacw commented 6 years ago

We can change character size now with the split handler, but it will shrink the character table. Instead, we can use some alternatives, such as hover-to-zoom.

humdingerb commented 6 years ago

Is zooming really needed? Personally, I don't even see the need in the split view. The default width of the left strip of the window is OK (better if the the font name etc weren't truncated). The selected character is nice and big and making it huge by reducing the list of all characters to the right doesn't make much sense to me...

ddacw commented 6 years ago

I think in most cases, it isn't necessary. Though fonts do contain some faults, and only with zooming can we detect them. Here's an example (inconsolata, Google Fonts): untitled-1

humdingerb commented 6 years ago

It's probably not the usual use-case for FontBoy, but OK... The split view is still the wrong means for zooming. Maybe the mouse wheel on the preview could zoom in/out where the mouse pointer is.

janus2 commented 6 years ago

I think FontBoy more as a catalog to consult the installed fonts... I don't thinks need to advanced functionality... I don't think it should be used to inspect glitches in fonts.

humdingerb commented 6 years ago

No, but zooming in/out of that preview would be a nice intuitive feature that doesn't need additional widgets to clutter the GUI. If anyone wants to implement that it's OK. Otherwise the issue just sits in this tracker... :)