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anthonyb · 10-05-2011, 05:02 AM

Hi PoP

I recently upgraded to your build 20110408 and I notice when running htop that the column alignment is a bit out for some rows (tabs not expanding correctly?). I'm wondering if this has something to do with the change from a 8px wide font to 6px wide and if some additional code somewhere needs changing, or is this a bug in htop?

You asked for suggestions to declutter the help block. Since this area is static I'm thinking it could be improved by replacing the block of help text with a bitmap image. A very much nicer help image could be created this way and then the bitmap painted onto the display with pix_blt() instead of outputting it as text. What do you think?

As soon as I have the chance to get a toolchain setup I'll start making some changes myself. I'm thinking of including both fonts and having the rows, columns and font configurable either via a config file or the command line. I'd also like to add a special key combination (or a signal handler) to tell kiterm to reload the config file and change the layout in real time. So the user can just press some keys or perhaps issue kill -WINCH 'myts' (or USR1 or HUP) to switch to full screen for example. For full screen mode I'd add a key combination to toggle the help on or off. Just some ideas...

10-05-2011, 05:02 AM	#41
anthonyb Member Posts: 16 Karma: 24 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi v3.2.1	Hi PoP I recently upgraded to your build 20110408 and I notice when running htop that the column alignment is a bit out for some rows (tabs not expanding correctly?). I'm wondering if this has something to do with the change from a 8px wide font to 6px wide and if some additional code somewhere needs changing, or is this a bug in htop? You asked for suggestions to declutter the help block. Since this area is static I'm thinking it could be improved by replacing the block of help text with a bitmap image. A very much nicer help image could be created this way and then the bitmap painted onto the display with pix_blt() instead of outputting it as text. What do you think? As soon as I have the chance to get a toolchain setup I'll start making some changes myself. I'm thinking of including both fonts and having the rows, columns and font configurable either via a config file or the command line. I'd also like to add a special key combination (or a signal handler) to tell kiterm to reload the config file and change the layout in real time. So the user can just press some keys or perhaps issue kill -WINCH 'myts' (or USR1 or HUP) to switch to full screen for example. For full screen mode I'd add a key combination to toggle the help on or off. Just some ideas...