IDE Propeller Tool Font problem
Dadita
Posts: 3
Hi!
I'm new to the propeller chip and tried out the Propeller tool yesterday which went ok. Unfortunately, when i started the tool today, i found that the font is displayed in a strange way. The characters seem to flow into another.
see the attached screenshot.
I can't figure out what could have changed from yesterday to today.
Thanks in advance!!!
Dadita
I'm new to the propeller chip and tried out the Propeller tool yesterday which went ok. Unfortunately, when i started the tool today, i found that the font is displayed in a strange way. The characters seem to flow into another.
see the attached screenshot.
I can't figure out what could have changed from yesterday to today.
Thanks in advance!!!
Dadita
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Cheers,
Simon
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
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Cheers,
Simon
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
Thanks for the reply.
I changed nothing as far as i can tell. and i just took the print preview out of laziness (nothing to scale for the screenshot [noparse]:)[/noparse] ), looks the same within the editor. i also tried changing the font size (ctrl + up / dn) --> doesn't help.
Cheers,
Dadita
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Cheers,
Simon
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
please go to system control on your windows and open region and speech options. Then on tab languages take button details. Here add scheme for English (USA) and set this as default. Then start the Propeller tool and it should be work properly. After that you can switch back to your prefered scheme.
Dadita, please post here the results of this (if it works, doesn't work, etc) and also please tell me what your language settings were set to before you make the change suggested by Kaio.
This issue is one that has baffled me for a while and I haven't been able to solve it or duplicate it with any amount of certainty.
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--Jeff Martin
· Sr. Software Engineer
· Parallax, Inc.
I also had this problem on a laptop running a P3.
Tried the fixes suggested, but did not work so I looked a little closer.
I found copying and pasting into a text editor (i.e., notepad), the fonts came out as they should.· So clearly the problem is not in any OS settings, it is a rendering problem in the propeller tool.
A closer look at the parallax fonts revealed that 2 sizes, 36 and 48 pixels where problematic, the rest where fine.
In the propeller tool, changing the font size up, and then back down again fixed the rendering of these two sizes, and subsequently there has been no problem.
bongo
sorry for the late answer, I was not at work this weekend [noparse];)[/noparse]
Unfortunately, I had to give away my Laptop and have a new one now, on which i installed the tool as well. that's why i couldn't try the suggested solutions, sorry.
Good news is, the tool seems to work fine now with the new machine (apart from the fact that the eva board is not recognized anymore, which i will post in a new thread when i can say more about it).
bad news is that changing the fontsize alone did not work for me (the error was scaled as well).
Thanks a lot so far!!
Dadita
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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
Looking at the parallax font via control panel/fonts/parallax, the error is still there, and additionally using the problem sizes in a text editor (notepad) reproduces the error, even though the prop tool is now displaying correctly. As a further complication, open office writer sometimes handles the parallax font without the errors. What is also apparent is it is not a problem with the fonts, but the spacing. Multiple characters are displayed in the same space.
On a 64 bit XP, there has not been a problem with the propeller tool, however looking into control panel/fonts, there is no parallax font, and naturally it is also not present for any other text editor, open office writer, or notepad.
Now, as the font is supposed to be available for other editors then I would ask is your PC showing the parallax font under control panel/fonts/parallax? And if so, are the different sizes displaying correctly in the “The quick brown fox................” text?
Changing the system DIP setting had no effect.
Someone who knows much more about this than I, suggests that you may need to be looking at the windows API interface.
Hope this is of some help,
bongo
I have the exact same problem using the tool under a Spanish-language Windows XP machine. So far, the only way I've found to solve the problem is to uninstall the Parallax font from the Windows control panel (while the tool is not running). Changing the regional settings, the zoom inside the tool, or the DIP setting, didn't help.
Looking at the font preview in the control panel, clearly two font sizes are wrong.
Regarding the font not appearing in Win XP 64-bit Font's folder:
Regarding font sizes 36 through 48:
Regarding font overlapping in the Propeller Tool:
At the moment, a way to solve this (thought not the best solution, I agree) is to change the default language setting.· In Windows XP, it's Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced tab -> Language for non-Unicode programs... set that to English (USA) or English (United States).· This has a side effect of garbling the characters in some other programs, however.
Either way, we are trying to solve this problem within the Propeller Tool, but have been unsuccessful as of yet.
Thank you.
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--Jeff Martin
· Sr. Software Engineer
· Parallax, Inc.
If you have problem with Fonts try It.
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Sapieha
Post Edited (Sapieha) : 10/19/2007 8:52:02 PM GMT
I see the overlap in Notepad, Wordpad, OpenOffice Writer and MGI Photosuite's text tool. I did notice that some of the overlap looks like it's evaluating the text as a ligature, st for example. When that happens, you have to delete the t before you can get to the s and you can't put a cursor between the characters.
I am wondering if there is a default system character set -- which probably does have the ligatures defined. If that can be changed, then maybe we can find a default that maintains proper letter spacing.
Fred
Change font name in font mapen.
Copy my font nad change name and try it.
Ps. I am not sure but I think I have localized problem in Tools Font
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Sapieha
Post Edited (Sapieha) : 10/19/2007 7:37:39 PM GMT
It funktion in my system
Ps. Sorry Fred it was wrong file.
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Sapieha
Post Edited (Sapieha) : 10/20/2007 5:17:58 PM GMT
The divide symbol shown in the PropTool Character Chart seems to be Infinity in the MS Character Map and MS Word.·It also appears the font does not display a Paragraph mark for newline when Formatting Marks is turned on.· The font does seem to be monospace, but with a different character width at a given pitch than say Courier New.
But my main concern is that I want to use the font to darw circuit diagrams.· Copying characters from the Windows Character Map is rather tedious.· Are there any PC editors to draw circuit diagrams using the fort that could be copied into MS Word, etc?· Alternatively, is there a "symbol" version of the font that maps the graphics into the 256 bytecodes for use in ASCII editors like notepad?·
JoeA
I have the same problem.
Resolved by changing the regional font to English(USA) in windows XP configuration menu