Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Theme System Limitations

[Yann Dirson]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:41:17PM +0100, Jordà Polo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:33:47AM -0500, James Barton wrote:
> > I've just finished a turbulent round of midterms, so I haven't been 
> > working on Wesnoth stuff much. I did however take time off writing a 
> > paper to muck about a bit with themes, and have attached the results. 
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> > Specifying fonts is not critical, but I believe that it is important if 
> > we want a proper theme system - obviously there'll need to be some way 
> > to provide new fonts along with graphics / theme data. More important 
> > is specifying font colour. As you can see from the attached screenshot, 
> > if you want to create a light-coloured theme, the writing can barely be 
> > seen. This is a problem.
> 
> I concur.
> 
> Actually, that was already suggested a while ago [1], but no one has
> been interested in implementing it.
> 
>  1. http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8814
> 
> Feel free to add more comments to the feature request (the current
> description is not very detailed).

Well, I'm more comfortable discussing things by mail than inside the
bugreport :)

> You should be able to select font size, color, and style.
>
>Something like:
>[menu]
>font_size=13
>font_color=#DDDDDD
>font_style=bold
>[/menu]

This is a great idea !

It could be extended in a the spirit of "styles" (as used, for
example, in contemporary word-processors).  We could use [textstyle]
blocks to define a set of commonly-used font_* parameters, and then
reference it using something like "textstyle=foo".

Aside from helping to make things consistent with a low maintainance
cost, it would have the side-effect that providing updated [textstyle]
blocks in a [partialresolution] would be sufficient to consistently
adapt font-size to other resolutions.

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