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Font size is silly small on MacOS after upgrade to v0.5.0 #37
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Until we implement #16 and add an option to the GUI for the user to be able to modify the font size of the app as a more-permanent workaround to this bug and the problem more generally (also good for accessibility), it appears that the user might be able to modify the font size used by kivy by manually editing the kivy config file's font options: |
I noticed on Sam's recent video drafts that these fonts are silly small:
While these fonts are sized as-desired:
TODO: Look for differences in the above widgets to see why some of the text is smaller that the others |
It looks like my newer settings window options use font Whereas the older things like the contents of the I've also seen use of Actually, I wonder if the last one caused the issue. Lines 249 to 254 in 53f631d
The above line was committed on 2022-06-11.
Therefore, if this bug was introduced in v0.5.0, I think the addition of this |
I just stumbled on this python module that auto-sizes text font sizes as the window size increases |
Kivy "sp" font units are "a special Kivy syntax, the sp units automatically scale the font size according to the DPI of the display and the user’s font size setting (on some platforms)" Source: https://blog.kivy.org/2019/12/kivy-tutorial-002-improving-appearance-customising-widgets-using-kivy-properties/ I'm hoping this fixes issues with silly small font sizes on some MacOS systems * #37
Describe the bug
For some reason, the font size on MacOS after upgrading the BusKill app to v0.5.0 is really small
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The font size should be reasonably large and easy-to-read. If needed, the user should be able to increase the font size, as needed.
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