Re: [ercp-dev] first approach and fonts

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply Mark,

> The eWorkbench is not coded to use any device/user preferences for font size
> since there is no standard way to obtain this info. So if on your particular
> device, the fonts are too small, the easiest thing to do is recompile the
> eWorkbench plugin with your own font size specified.

Ok, so I will have to tweak it, thanks for the pointer.

> You typically see boxes instead of characters when the device font does not
> support the character being displayed. Some device manufacturers provide
> additional fonts that you can download to the device. Make the new font the
> default, and most apps should use it and display the right characters.

That is so strange, because even the default font shows the boxes. I
also tried to set a Tahoma font, which is supposed to be present for
sure in Windows Mobile and I get the same error. Also this only
applies to spaces and striong endings (not \n, simply the end of the
string, i.e. "COM4" gets "COM4[]" with the brackets being the box). I
will  investigate further.

Best regards,
Andrea


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> From:        andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:        ercp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:        08/24/2011 04:43 AM
> Subject:        [ercp-dev] first approach and fonts
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> Hi list,
> I am quite new to the eRCP project and was successful in adding
> applications to the eWorkbench using the phoneme jvm.
> So far I am amazed about the possibility to go mobile developing in rcp.
>
> Due to the display size (I guess) of the device, the font is  way to
> small to be readable, which is why I supplied custom fonts to the
> widgets.
> I could not find a way to do this in an overall way (themes do not
> seem to be supported). I have 2 main problems:
> - the eWorkbench parts are still small. Do I have to modify the plugin
> directly to change the UI font or is there another way?
> - the texts have strange rectangles [0] instead of the spaces
>
> Best regards,
> Andrea
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> [0] as code 141 in the table here http://www.asciitable.it/asciiext.asp
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