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Peter Uhnak

Spec LabelModel's #font: and other styles

Does it make sense to be able to specify font and similar at Spec-level?

And not just font, also the size, color, or emphasis (which currently only emphasis is supported).

From one perspective it's handy, because I can change it at a whim, however I wonder whether this shouldn't be responsibility of some styler instead.

Text as far as I know is capable of storing styled information. This would enable to outsource the style information to someone else (e.g. your stylesheet). However from practical perspective for the end user it would be extra work as it would add an indirection step.

For TextModel that would be clearly better (because you might want to style different parts of text differently), however for LabelModel I'm not so sure.

Any opinions?

Thanks,

Peter

jfabry

Re: Spec LabelModel's #font: and other styles

I think it is better to avoid setting absolute style info for labels, e.g. font size and color. This because system settings allow you to set, e.g. font size systemwide, and it would be ugly if suddenly some labels don’t obey. Now, what could be done is to set some attributes like ‘bigger’, ‘smaller’, et cetera, and these should then take the system settings into account.

On Oct 2, 2015, at 08:47, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:

Does it make sense to be able to specify font and similar at Spec-level?

And not just font, also the size, color, or emphasis (which currently only emphasis is supported).

From one perspective it's handy, because I can change it at a whim, however I wonder whether this shouldn't be responsibility of some styler instead.

Text as far as I know is capable of storing styled information. This would enable to outsource the style information to someone else (e.g. your stylesheet). However from practical perspective for the end user it would be extra work as it would add an indirection step.

For TextModel that would be clearly better (because you might want to style different parts of text differently), however for LabelModel I'm not so sure.

Any opinions?

Thanks,
Peter

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stepharo

Re: Spec LabelModel's #font: and other styles

In reply to this post by Peter Uhnak

I think that this part has been completely forgotten by spec.
Normally the layout should take into account the size of the label and font
and I do not see why we could not specify the color and other attributes
we want to have but we did not work on this point.
Now we will have to see that in the context of Brick skin.

Stef

Le 2/10/15 13:47, Peter Uhnák a écrit :

> Does it make sense to be able to specify font and similar at Spec-level?
>
> And not just font, also the size, color, or emphasis (which currently
> only emphasis is supported).
>
> From one perspective it's handy, because I can change it at a whim,
> however I wonder whether this shouldn't be responsibility of some
> styler instead.
>
> Text as far as I know is capable of storing styled information. This
> would enable to outsource the style information to someone else (e.g.
> your stylesheet). However from practical perspective for the end user
> it would be extra work as it would add an indirection step.
>
> For TextModel that would be clearly better (because you might want to
> style different parts of text differently), however for LabelModel I'm
> not so sure.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter