Re: [ercp-dev] first approach and fonts

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

A small update on this (without evident solution, I am afraid).
Reading the comments on the following post:
http://jmj-eclipse.blogspot.com/2009/10/running-ercp-with-phoneme-advanced-on.html

I saw the comment about the same problem I have:

"I was able to resolve the issue with stray characters in the widget
texts (menu, button, etc.) by fixing one method in the eSWT C code. It
seems CVM does not handle Strings the same way J9 does. J9 will
automatically terminate the string with null values when passing
to/from JNI. CVM doesn't seem to do this. The fix was pretty simple,
since the length of the string was provided already."

Does anyone know if this was addressed in the latest available
eRCP/eSWT or if this could be the problem I am facing?

Best regards,
Andrea


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, andrea antonello
<andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To:        ercp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date:        08/24/2011 04:43 AM
>> Subject:        [ercp-dev] first approach and fonts
>> Sent by:        ercp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [0] as code 141 in the table here http://www.asciitable.it/asciiext.asp
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