Stardate Clock - Development (C++ with Qt)

[Robert]

Very nice!

[kandrey89]

Redesigned the TOS Mini because we went with 3D design.



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[kandrey89]

I've had some time, and thought I'd make the program more cross-platform compatible.

I believe that Helvetica LT UltraCompressed font has a slightly different name syntax for it on other platforms, so until I can install the font on those platforms, I won't know what the exact font name is, and own't be able to add it as a backup font,what the backup font does is, if the exact named font is not available it checks the name of the next font in line to see if that font is installed, and uses it. (It's how websites use font-families to make them look almost the same across different OSes, because some fonts are not installed on ALL OSes)

Things I've done:

• Added "LCARS" font which should be freely redistributable, to be used as a backup for "Helvetica LT UltraCompressed"
• Converted all fonts from pt size based system to px sized based system, which allows fonts of differing heights to use the same ##px to represent text using very similar height, at least between LCARS and Helvatica LT UltraCompressed.
• Changed all fonts to utilize Anti-Allias drawing method
• Added more fonts for cross-platform compatibility for texts which do not require or use the fonts supplied with the program.
• Cleaned up a lot of internal settings for each element in the GUI, although it did not affect appearance, it's better to just keep it default (at some point in the development I tried utilizing these settings to design the look of the LCARS, but it didn't work, and they got left over)

Here's a comparison between windows where all of the text is non anti-allias and anti-allias.

NON Anti-Allias:


Anti-Allias:

[deif]

anti alias looks much better - compare the title "chronometer" to see the difference...
what about a different colorscheme?

[Robert]

Very nice idea with the backup font.