01-17-2026, 07:15 PM
@grymmjack
That's the problem with Linux distributions, nothing seems to be standard. I'm not a Linux user, so the font provided was one by Tony, who said it looked best on his system. Without a custom font, the program falls back to the built-in, default font, and you can't resize it just by changing some parameter in the _LOADFONT settings.
No font, no CTRL-ARROW resizing with the font.
As for Shift-Tab, I'll have to check if _KEYHIT will even respond to those keystrokes. Normally I use CTRL-TAB for a backwards tab, as that's what most windows applications have gotten me fingers and brain trained for, and there's no such thing as CTRL-TAB in GLUT. You can't generate CTRL-TAB keystrokes. As long as SHIFT-TAB works, I'll be happy to toss it into the program. Keep in mind though that a simple LEFT/RIGHT arrow work just as well for you to move tabs forward and backwards as well.
As for search it wouldn't be hard to do with inputbox and such, but is it really needed? Most are on a single page of info and in alphabetical order. I might dig into a color search sometime, where you supply three color values Red, Green, Blue... and then it gives you the closest possible color name match to that color. Now THAT might be a rather handy enhancement to the tool. Say I want Red 50, Blue 100, Green 50.. If that's not a perfect name match, what's the closest color that matches that name that I could use? That sounds like a nice side project to play around with next and sort out, and then add into an updated version of the tool.
That's the problem with Linux distributions, nothing seems to be standard. I'm not a Linux user, so the font provided was one by Tony, who said it looked best on his system. Without a custom font, the program falls back to the built-in, default font, and you can't resize it just by changing some parameter in the _LOADFONT settings.
No font, no CTRL-ARROW resizing with the font.
As for Shift-Tab, I'll have to check if _KEYHIT will even respond to those keystrokes. Normally I use CTRL-TAB for a backwards tab, as that's what most windows applications have gotten me fingers and brain trained for, and there's no such thing as CTRL-TAB in GLUT. You can't generate CTRL-TAB keystrokes. As long as SHIFT-TAB works, I'll be happy to toss it into the program. Keep in mind though that a simple LEFT/RIGHT arrow work just as well for you to move tabs forward and backwards as well.
As for search it wouldn't be hard to do with inputbox and such, but is it really needed? Most are on a single page of info and in alphabetical order. I might dig into a color search sometime, where you supply three color values Red, Green, Blue... and then it gives you the closest possible color name match to that color. Now THAT might be a rather handy enhancement to the tool. Say I want Red 50, Blue 100, Green 50.. If that's not a perfect name match, what's the closest color that matches that name that I could use? That sounds like a nice side project to play around with next and sort out, and then add into an updated version of the tool.