Re: Scaling text in window

John Aldrich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250
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
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