Yeah, well, I only began this thing because I thought it would be 100,
maybe 150 lines of code. And it ballooned to more than 1,600.

OK, it was good. It's not very polished, it's poorly tested and a few
things can be considered unfinished, but it's pretty usable. I will
improve it later.


What's Your Type, version 0.1, beta. https://sourceforge.net/projects/whatsyourtype/

Linux only. Windows coming soon.

What's Your Type is a program with a GUI that lets you browse all the
fonts you have installed in your operating system and pick/isolate a
few you may want to use in some project. It is specifically designed
for people who are working on some graphical design project that
requires fancy fonts such as Web sites, fliers, newsletters etc.
and need to browse and choose fonts.

package require Tk
package require tile
package require Thread
package require BWidget

All comments are welcome.

Big "Thank you" to all who helped.


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Luc <luc@sep.invalid> writes:

Yeah, well, I only began this thing because I thought it would be 100,
maybe 150 lines of code. And it ballooned to more than 1,600.

OK, it was good. It's not very polished, it's poorly tested and a few
things can be considered unfinished, but it's pretty usable. I will
improve it later.

What's Your Type, version 0.1, beta. https://sourceforge.net/projects/whatsyourtype/

Linux only. Windows coming soon.

Thanks for sharing. I gave your script a try and it raised error at
startup:

Error in startup script: no such variable
(read trace on "env(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)")
invoked from within
"set ::homedir $env(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)"

I don't have XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in my enviroment because I just use the default (~/.config). This is just fine, according to the XDG Base
Directory Specification[1]:

"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which
user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be
used."

I altered your script like:

if {[info exists env(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)]} {
set ::homedir $env(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)
} else {
# Try to be future ready: no tilde expansion
# anymore in Tcl 9
set ::homedir $env(HOME)/.config
}

and then it runs fine for me.

rolf

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:19:43 +0100, Rolf Ade wrote:

I don't have XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in my enviroment because I just use the >default (~/.config). This is just fine, according to the XDG Base
Directory Specification[1]:

I had no idea. I trusted that variable to be universal. Will be fixed in the next version. Thank you.



On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:28:21 -0400, saitology9 wrote:

You can get it to run on Windows too. Changes for Windows are:
1) Remove or comment out the entire block of code above and just say this: >set ::homedir [pwd]
2) there are a few places that use commands similar to "wm attributes
$::b1 -zoomed 0". This usage is Linux specific and will throw an error.

Those are things that I will find out when I get it running on Windows. I
only have XP and I don't have Tcl/Tk installed on Windows. I tried it with a cross-compiled Freewrap binary, but I am having problems with BWidget:

https://sourceforge.net/p/freewrap/bugs/62/

It seems I am not the only one:

https://sourceforge.net/p/freewrap/bugs/50/

But the proposed fix doesn't work for me.

I suspect LaBelle will close my ticket as wont-fix but first I want to
see if he has anything to say.

Please remember that very few people even know what Tcl/Tk is so I
really need to distribute binary versions.

However, I am not sure what I am looking at. Typing c will let you
change some settings. It is very hard to scroll - maybe it is not meant
to be scrolled. It displays the fonts on your system with a sample text
to see what they look like.

The description of the program is quite clear on its SourceForge page.
There is also a manual. Did you press F1? You should have been informed
of the F1 binding on the first run.

Please elaborate on "very hard to scroll." It should scroll smoothly. Are
you on Windows?


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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:43:41 -0400, saitology9 wrote:

You can't use the mousewheel scroll. It doesn't do anything. I can
click or select anything. I can grab the scrollbar and then it works
but it is a bit different? When I do Control-A, in full selection mode,
you see the outlines if widgets and stuff.

I guess my confusion was around the precise widget positioning stuff
that was discussed in the threads. You can completely ignore my comment.

**************************

The mousewheel scroll works fine for me on Linux. The selection doesn't
go along though. So yes, it's awkward. I will have to fix that.

Control-A doesn't work at all for me. Does it for you? I can select all
by double-clicking the background. But that should not happen. Will fix
it too.

Windows is not supported for the time being. As soon as I get a chance
to actually run it on Windows I should iron out those and other
problems.

Thank you for the feedback.

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Luc <luc@sep.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:19:43 +0100, Rolf Ade wrote:

I don't have XDG_CONFIG_HOME set in my enviroment because I just use the >>default (~/.config). This is just fine, according to the XDG Base
Directory Specification[1]:

I had no idea. I trusted that variable to be universal. Will be fixed in the next version. Thank you.

XDG_* is all Linux/Unix specific stuff, windows has its own, different, vaariant.

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