Re: Scaling text in window
John Aldrich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250 |
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| Organization | Blueridge Carpet |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wednesday 15 April 2009, James Rich wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, John Aldrich wrote: > > We have an i-series here where I work and I was wanting to use some > > older hardware that will only run something like Win98 for linux-based > > AS/400 terminals. I've gotten where I can have the TN5250 app run from > > a shortcut on the desktop, but I can't seem to get it to scale the way > > the IBM Windows clients will. If I expand the window, the text remains > > at the same size it was when the terminal was launched. > > > > How do I get the text to scale up with the size of the terminal > > window??? > > If you are doing this on Windows then Scott will have to answer whether > or not the windows version supports scaling text. As for > xt5250/tn5250/x5250 on linux/BSD/whatever it does not support scaling > the text to match an arbitrary window size. I'm working on this for > x5250, albeit very slowly. > > What you can do is specify font sizes instead of window sizes. A larger > font will give a larger window. This works in xt5250 and x5250. > > James Rich > > if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on > the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond > when you're done reading them :) > - Paul Davis on ardour-dev > Thanks... Can you advise how to do that? I'd *like* for it to be readable at 800x600 desktop size at the very least. If I take the desktop down to 640x480, it's very readable, but then everything else is huge. -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT Manager -- This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: LINUX5250-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: LINUX5250-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.