[comp.windows.x] Design philosophy question -- Font size changes

dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott) (06/16/89)

I'm developing a program that uses a mixture of bitmaps and fonts, and
I need advice on what to do with my bitmaps when the user specifies a
smaller or larger font than the default (in the toolkit I am using,
the default is 9x15).

I've been told that it isn't proper to ignore font size resources,
so the problem is what to do with the bitmaps.

Currently, I am making my bitmaps 12x12 and centering them vertically.
This means that the bitmaps look silly with a big font.  With a
smaller font, it means that the user gets some overlap with other
objects, which they will have to live with.

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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