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Subject: Parameter Dials


MikeJ ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 4:26 PM · edited Sun, 05 January 2025 at 7:57 PM

Does anyone know if there's a way to change the font size and/or type in the parameter dials window in P7? Font is OK, but the size is too big, IMO. I've tried all the options in the Windows display settings, but none of that affects that menu, window or whatever it is.
I know there's a "parmDialPrefs.xml" file in the Runtime>ui folder, but have no idea what to adjust, or if that's all that needs to be adjusted, or even if it can be adjusted.
Thanks. :-)



ockham ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 4:45 PM · edited Tue, 01 January 2008 at 4:49 PM

file_396634.jpg

You can change the text size and font style, but it doesn't self-adjust the overall setup, so there's a limit on size..

Here's the important line.  (I'm only showing the first part for clarity)

        <Widget name="name"  widgetProcID="3"  widgetText="70:0"  textColor="-16777216"  textSize="12"  textAlign="0"  textFont="1" ...........

When I change it to

        <Widget name="name"  widgetProcID="3"  widgetText="70:0"  textColor="-16777216"  textSize="14"  textAlign="0"   textFont="2" .........

the result is as shown here.  Definitely more readable.  

The textFont is probably system-dependent; I'm guessing that Poser
tells the system to use, for instance, a Helvetia style for 1 and a 
Times Roman style for 2, and so on.  Your computer will then decide 
which actual font fits that suggestion.

The size can go beyond 14, but it's just too crowded and weird to use.

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MikeJ ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:02 PM · edited Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:04 PM

Thank you. I'll have to look into that. Your style there still seems too large though, about what I'm seeing on my monitor but it's difficult to tell. Comparing the word "Scale" to the "Cloth" tab text size, mine actually seems maybe 10% smaller than yours.
I would like to get it to where it's about 35% of the size of the upper tabs' text size, so I don't have to scroll forever downward through the paramaters when I have a part with hundreds of morph targets. I'm not really looking for more readable, actually I want less readable, taking up less space. ;-)
I appreciate the info - definitely I'm going to give that a try.

Edited for typos.
I'm at the point where I might actually consider offering paying them to make the reply box work with Firefox spellchecker.



ockham ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:14 PM

file_396637.jpg

Oh, you want smaller!   There should be more leeway in that direction,  but it still wouldn't auto-adjust.

Try decreasing the "verticalSpacing1" and "verticalSpacing2" values in
the very first line, the one that begins with "Offsets".

Here's what happened when I INcreased those values ... the spacing
now looks about right for the larger type.

 <Offsets verticalSpacing1="20"  verticalSpacing2="36" 

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MikeJ ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:32 PM

Oh cool. Thank you. :-)



ockham ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:39 PM

Thanks for asking the question ... I'd been thinking about enlarging
those values for my old eyes, but didn't quite "trigger" on the task until
I saw your question.

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MikeJ ( ) posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 5:49 PM

No problem. Anytime. ;-)



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