RE: [Pythoncard-users] Linux Screenshots

> From: Neil Hodgson
>
>    The sizes of widgets and fonts and the visual appearance
> depends on which
> GTK+ theme you are using. Therefore Jeff's screenshots look a lot
> different
> to mine (he has chosen a theme similar to Motif and I chose one similar to
> Windows) and as various parameters, such as font size, change
> other elements
> need resizing. Explicitly setting fonts in your application is
> frowned upon
> because you should be able to choose this in the GTK+ theme control panel
> for global effect. Windows has similar features but they are used
> less often
> and for smaller visual changes - few Windows users know how to change the
> dialog font which causes many dialogs to display badly.

I have tried some of the alternate Windows schemes, but I can't remember now
whether wxWindows actually used different default sizes and fonts correctly
all the time. I'll experiment with that more to see what does and doesn't
work in anticipation of doing positioning and sizing that isn't absolute.

So, in the sizer realm are we going to also need to support relative font
sizes as well, so you say something is 100%, 180% ...? Does this map to
wxPython or do we have to manage it ourselves - it looks like the latter
IIRC?

> > Did you do an ascii or binary transfer? Unix folks please speak up so we
> can
> > address issues with line endings or anything else that I'm
> missing because
> > I'm using Windows 2000. I got Unix out of my system a long time ago and
> > don't plan on going back, so somebody else is gonna have to help here.
>
>    Most Python code copes well with the extra \r characters but
> the resource
> files don't so one thing that can be done is to explicitly replace all
> '\r\n' with '\n' before evaling on Linux.

So doesn't the -a option take care of this when the file is unzipped or was
the problem the ftp transfer? If we use distutils will the conversion be
done automatically? I can start automating the conversion to just newlines
before zipping, but that might cause other problems.

ka