[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12612) Different city name styles

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12612 >

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:35:33PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12612 >
> 
> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12612 >
> 
> > The FTWL client had a feature to draw the city name and production
> > text depending on the city size. I use the past here since the drawing
> > code was moved to common code (which is a good thing). However the
> > common code doesn't support it.
> 
> Yeah.
> > We have 3 options:
> >  1) don't change the current situation
> >  2) enable clients to do the drawing by themselves again if they want
> >  3) add these features to the common code
> > 
> > 3) is preferred but also have the biggest requirements. For example
> > how is the font name specified? Do all of our clients support freetype
> > so that we can pass a freetype font name in?
> 
> The client common code has a font enumeration.  I don't think the canvas 
> code needs a full font implementation (yet) but since the current 
> enumerated fonts are freeciv-specific anyway there's no harm in adding 
> more of them.  We already have a FONT_CITY_NAME, which we could split 
> into FONT_CITY_NAME_SMALL, FONT_CITY_NAME_MEDIUM, FONT_CITY_NAME_LARGE. 
>   The mapview_common code then uses a different font based on city size 
> and it's up to the GUI code how to implement it.

Where does the font defines come from? Tileset or some config file or
are they hardcoded?

> That said, I don't really think different size text for city names is a 
> good feature.  But it can't hurt to try it.

Size is only one attribute. Also note that this really is only 60
lines of code. It was just a feature which is easy to implement for
the ftwl client.

        Raimar

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