Is it possible to customize fonts in Shout?
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Hi everyone.
I'm a complete beginner in Squeak (with previous experience in Java) and I'm trying to set up a convenient development environment. After one day of pain (errors, package installs over and over again etc) the thing seems to work, highlights code and completes methods. The only thing I could not fix till now is the font Shout uses to render strings - it is possible to do that? If so how? Thanks a lot! :) |
Re: Is it possible to customize fonts in Shout?
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malex-
Short answer: Yeah, that is doable. But, unless you've just missed an option somewhere, it has to be done manually. Long answer: I don't know about Shout- I've never used it. But, there are Squeak apps that are a lot like any other GUI apps- when a ton of work hasn't been done on the GUI there is oftentimes a lack of customization. In Squeak, sometimes an app that doesn't have a font customization option will honor the default text font, list font, etc. But other times, these apps do not. It sounds like Shout is such an app. Unless you just aren't looking well and you've missed a font setting, the only way it can be changed is by changing something in the source. Now, that sounds a lot worse than it is- fonts are pretty simple in Squeak. But, if you don't know Smalltalk (yet!), don't know how or where to look, and aren't comfortable changing source even if you found it, it might sound a little scary. I could help you with this possibly, depending on what we can arrange. Reply to me privately. Or, stop by the #squeak IRC chat channel- you can get to it via the site below. I am on there as "rev", but if I'm not there you could always ask the channel in general, as there are often people willing to help. http://www.bitquabit.com/rev/squeakChat/ Regards, Aaron On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:41 AM, malex wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I'm a complete beginner in Squeak (with previous experience in > Java) and > I'm trying to set up a convenient development environment. After > one day of > pain (errors, package installs over and over again etc) the thing > seems to > work, highlights code and completes methods. The only thing I could > not fix > till now is the font Shout uses to render strings - it is possible > to do > that? If so how? > Thanks a lot! :) > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-it-possible- > to-customize-fonts-in-Shout--tf2623064.html#a7319227 > Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > |
Re: Is it possible to customize fonts in Shout?
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"malex" <[hidden email]> wrote in message news:[hidden email]... > > Hi everyone. > > I'm a complete beginner in Squeak (with previous experience in Java) and > I'm trying to set up a convenient development environment. After one day of > pain (errors, package installs over and over again etc) the thing seems to > work, highlights code and completes methods. The only thing I could not fix > till now is the font Shout uses to render strings - it is possible to do > that? If so how? yes, it is. In general, Shout uses the system-wide "code" font (please ask if you don't know how to change this). In earlier versions of Shout (which includes the latest published version on SqueakMap), the font for literal Strings (e.g. myString := 'this is a literal String'.), was set to always be 'Accuny'. This caused problems, and in the latest version of Shout, the single code font is used for everything. So, if you have changed the code font, and are seeing Strings with a different font from other things, then you are using the older version of Shout, and the easiest way of fixing this is to upgrade Shout to the latest version (which I still haven't published on SqueakMap, so you will need to get it from SqueakSource). The file is Shout.3.15-tween.65.mcz, please ask again if you can't find it, or don't know how to install it. If you wish to override the code font for certain syntax elements, or to change the bold/italic/underline/color attributes for those elements, then you can edit the SHTextStylerST80 class method - #defaultStyleTable. (You will then need to evaluate - SHTextStylerST80 initialize - and open a new browser before the changes will take effect). I hope that helps, Andy > Thanks a lot! :) > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-customize-fonts-in-Shout--tf2623064.html#a7319227 > Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > |
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Andrew,
Thanks a lot! It worked! :) This piece of software is really invaluable for me as I've got used to syntax highlight since Borland IDE's. I really appreciate your work.
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