03-25-2004, 08:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Smaller Fonts Make Me a Happy Guy!
I was looking over some of the screen shots at PPCW.net, and this one got me excited:
I've been asking (begging?) for a smaller font option since the first Pocket PC came out in 2000. The default font, for me, is simply too big. I never wanted them to change the default font, because for many people it's perfect, but I wanted to see an option to provide a smaller font, system-wide. Yes, I've tried the various font hacks, but they're all pretty ugly - you end up with dialogue boxes that don't look right, and I never wanted to show my Pocket PC to other people because it looked dysfunctional. This looks like an improvement, but I wonder about the degree of control - notice that while the fonts listing the email are small, the rest of the fonts in Pocket Inbox are regular size. I wonder why that is?
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03-25-2004, 08:14 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 293
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hehe... where you been... that's the first thing i noticed when you linked that PPCW.net link yesterday...
now that's what i'm talking bout... glance to see all that email at once. Guess it's a good thing i'm broke cuz i was gonna buy a PPC (iPAQ 4155 of-course) but spent the money i got for selling my 2215 plus the money my girl gave me :twisted:  ops: (hehe- she gave me it to buy the iPAQ as a birthday gift - sorry babe.. but this is the reason why i didn't buy it yet.)
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03-25-2004, 08:24 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 307
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I know the fonts in WM2003SE are adjustable in size (there's a slider thingy for the purpose in Settings that you can see in the screen shots on PocketPCParadise.com), but I don't know why the non-application text is a different size - it might be that the control explicitly doesn't apply to system text (I can see some rationale for that - they need to be able to predict where it's going to go, and there is less of a reason to give people the choice to see more or less of it, by comparison for instance with the content of a document or a web page).
There is an analogy for this with web browsers: If I select "View->Text Size->Largest" on IE 6, text in web pages that has been designed to allow user-sizing (hint: use "em" when specifying font sizes) will be displayed much larger than normally. However, the text size of the menus and icons labels of the browser itself is unaffected. It looks like Microsoft has adopted a broadly similar approach with its Pocket PC text size.
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03-25-2004, 08:33 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 284
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notice that while the fonts listing the email are small, the rest of the fonts in Pocket Inbox are regular size. I wonder why that is?
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Quite possibly because the "regular" sized fonts have their size hard coded and do not use a registry setting or other variable for size info.
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03-25-2004, 08:41 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 578
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Sigh. I used to prefer tiny fonts. I'd use utilities to print 8 pages on a single sheet of paper. But, alas, my eyes are no longer young.
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03-25-2004, 09:01 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Yes. Finnaly. I never got the point of have such large text. I mean, how far away are you going to have the PPC away from your eyes.
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03-25-2004, 09:25 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 384
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Menu bar fonts ...
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I was looking over some of the screen shots at PPCW.net, and this one got me excited:
I've been asking (begging?) for a smaller font option since the first Pocket PC came out in 2000. The default font, for me, is simply too big. I never wanted them to change the default font, because for many people it's perfect, but I wanted to see an option to provide a smaller font, system-wide. Yes, I've tried the various font hacks, but they're all pretty ugly - you end up with dialogue boxes that don't look right, and I never wanted to show my Pocket PC to other people because it looked dysfunctional. This looks like an improvement, but I wonder about the degree of control - notice that while the fonts listing the email are small, the rest of the fonts in Pocket Inbox are regular size. I wonder why that is? |
It would be nice to free up some screen space with smaller menu bar fonts. Likewise, a tunable scroll bar size would be nice as well.
Finally, I haven't seen any photos yet on how the "soft keboard" appears in landscape mode. In the "other" solutions. Landsape keyboards looked kind of silly. Did microsoft provide a different template for landscape keyboards.
I'm also curious on how fitaly will respond to this. Their keyboard doesn't seem capable of being "stretched" from one side of the device to another. Will some keyboards appear as a sidebar in landscape mode ????
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03-25-2004, 10:33 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 146
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& I got excited when I saw large fonts.....as long as the scaling meets the needs of everyone at both extremes we should all be happy with this accessibility feature!
Regards
David
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03-26-2004, 01:10 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 13
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Re: Menu bar fonts ...
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Originally Posted by Will T Smith
Finally, I haven't seen any photos yet on how the "soft keboard" appears in landscape mode. In the "other" solutions. Landsape keyboards looked kind of silly. Did microsoft provide a different template for landscape keyboards.
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I've been wondering the same thing so I fired up the emulator in landscape mode and here's what I got:
Antoine
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03-26-2004, 03:16 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 13
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Re: Menu bar fonts ...
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Originally Posted by Antoine
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Originally Posted by Will T Smith
Finally, I haven't seen any photos yet on how the "soft keboard" appears in landscape mode. In the "other" solutions. Landsape keyboards looked kind of silly. Did microsoft provide a different template for landscape keyboards.
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I've been wondering the same thing so I fired up the emulator in landscape mode and here's what I got:
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Hi Antoine!
What emulator are you talking about? Is there already an update or new SDK out? Didn't got any information about that yet!!
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