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Font Size ignored by Popup

Archive · 2005 5 old posts

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beno ·

I saw an old bug about this but it was for .9.2 which was so long ago. Popup seems to be ignoring the font size parameter. Ben

malc ·

Yeah, that's because the Popup List component sizes the font to fit the area you pass to it.

The popup list is not working very well and for me it's not the best solution to the problem of picking from a list. It's most likely going to be dropped. To replace it we have the Drop List component. This provides more flexibility. It uses a popup menu which is the the way most VST/i's deal with selections.

The Drop List component was introduced a while ago now. have a look here for an example of how to use it: Popup Module Text

I think this is a much crisper, cleaner control and it behaves far better from an interaction point of view. It also allows you to mark the current selection with a check if you want to. When the popup is closed you can display the selected option in any way you like.

beno ·

ok didn't know it had been replaced. I'll tryout the drop list. Thanks, Ben

beno ·

That worked great. Much more flexible. Thanks. Ben

Tom7777 ·

Yeah i had this also, its all to do with the area set but Malcs example make it work alot better anyway 🙂

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