Feb2001 hugs98 on MacOS

Richard A. O'Keefe ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:40:39 +1300 (NZDT)


The February 2001 release of Hugs 98 unpacked fine and seems to run fine
on my PowerMac 7600/120 running Mac OS 8.6

HOWEVER, the characters in the console window are teeny tiny wee characters
indeed.  What are they, 8 point?  I could live with 10 point, but would
personally rather have 12 point.  So what do I do to change the size of
the text in this window?

I poked around in the sources, and discovered that the window is a SIOUX
console.  It appears that Hugs does not set any SIOUX options to control
the text size, but I may have missed something.

I wanted to try setting SIOUXSettings.fontsize = 12;
but unfortunately I have CW Pro 2, not CW Pro 5, so cannot use the
XML project file provided, and no instructions for using CW Pro 2
were included.

I would strongly recommend adding a "-fontsize" command line option
that can be put in the Hugs Preferences file.

Come to think of it, a -fontface option so that I can get 'courier'
instead of 'monaco' would be nice too.