Re: [Denemo-devel] Fonts in pallets os X

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Sep 4, 2014 1:17 PM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 17:49 +0000, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > On 9/4/14, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 08:25 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >> It is not empty any more. It took a while to update I guess. It
> > >> appears if I accidentally left them attached to a preview email also.
> > > What I see is that the denemo font characters that you created for notes
> > > and rests - the ones used in various menus and tooltips - is not being
> > > displayed on the palette buttons - not even as a box indicating a
> > > character for which no font has been found.
> > >
> > >
> > > What does palettes.xml contain for these buttons in the <label> field
> > > for mis-behaving buttons? (That is, is the
> > > ~/.denemo-1.1.9/actions/palettes.xml correct?)
> >
> > I see for the whole not is has &#x25BC;&#x1D15D; for appending a whole note.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Do the menu items (e.g. Notes/Rests->Select Duration) show these special
> > > Denemo font characters?
> >
> > No fonts it only has text and there is is no [].
> >
> > > If so, it would seem to be peculiar to palettes.c
> > > What happens if you right click on a label that is not working and
> > > choose "Edit label"? Does the label contain the character that is not
> > > displaying?
> >
> > Yes, I see the missing font then.
> >
> > >What if you paste that character in?
> >
> > What do you mean? Paste it where?
>
> Sorry, that question was on the assumption that it was not present in
> the text entry widget, but as it *is* present then of course there is no
> need to paste it in.
>
>
> >
> > > Edit label goes through the code:
> > >     denemo/src/ui/palettes.c:237
> > > which has a warning about something rather bizarre that happens when you
> > > try to change the markup on a label.
> >
> > I will read through palettes.c then.
>
> No need to focus on palettes.c, if the whole-note symbol doesn't show in
> the regular menus, then there is nothing special about palettes.c, it is
> failing to find the font for some whole class of gtk widgets (labels of
> one sort or another I guess). The fact that the font is found for the
> text entry widget used for editing the label means that this is some
> sort of problem with the gtk markup stuff. We use gtk markup for various
> things inside Denemo (most notably I've been using it to draw attention
> to the status bar by drawing things extra large and in color there - do
> these work? For example, the shortcut p brings up a message on the
> status bar in large green letters - is that happening?).

Yes. I see the big green letters when I hit p.

>
> Do you have this stuff built for any other platforms? (I don't know
> anyone with a Mac).

I only have denemo builds for mingw, darwin, and Linux. It is working fine in the Linux build. I believe this worked with gtk2. Is this worth downgrading to gtk2 over?

Jeremiah
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> Richard
>
>
> >
> > Jeremiah
> >
> > >
> > >>  I didn't mean to send them  via attachment. Oh well.
> > > The email I received did not have an attachement.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Jeremiah
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Richard Shann
> > >> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>         On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 07:27 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >>         > Here is a link to two screenshots so you can see what I am
> > >>         talking
> > >>         > about.
> > >>         >
> > >>         >
> > >>
> > >> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/170zcwsjquac2mu/AABPNIyPVSlmoF0IeQAjb0cPa?dl=0
> > >>         >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>         I just get "this folder is empty" for that link
> > >>
> > >>         Richard
> > >>
> > >>         > Jeremiah
> > >>         >
> > >>         > On Sep 4, 2014 2:35 AM, "Richard Shann"
> > >>         <address@hidden>
> > >>         > wrote:
> > >>         >         On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 22:55 -0500, Jeremiah Benham
> > >>         wrote:
> > >>         >         > There is some interface weirdness in the gtk3
> > >>         compiled
> > >>         >         version of
> > >>         >         > denemo for mac os x. I was wondering where this
> > >>         code is.
> > >>         >
> > >>         >         code that does what? We don't have (AFAK) any
> > >>         GtkButtonBox or
> > >>         >         derived
> > >>         >         classes ...
> > >>         >
> > >>         >         >  Can we set gtk_button_box_set_layout(widget,
> > >>         >         GTK_BUTTON_EXPAND)? I am
> > >>         >         > only guessing. When I hover the mouse over the
> > >>         message the
> > >>         >         tooltip
> > >>         >         in which palette? There are some .svg images in the
> > >>         ornaments
> > >>         >         one which
> > >>         >         don't load on windows...
> > >>         >
> > >>         >         >  shows the missing font. It is like the button is
> > >>         just too
> > >>         >         small or
> > >>         >         > something.
> > >>         >         In what way is it like that? When the font is
> > >>         missing gtk
> > >>         >         generates a
> > >>         >         rectangle character, but otherwise all the expansion
> > >>         of
> > >>         >         containers
> > >>         >         carries on working?
> > >>         >
> > >>         >         Richard
> > >>         >
> > >>         >         >  It works ok in gtk2 but thought it would be
> > >>         better if I
> > >>         >         figured this
> > >>         >         > out.
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> > >>         >         > Jeremiah
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