Notification fonts and line spacing with 2v27

[jeonlab]

Hi.
I have updated the firmware with 2v27 recently and found the control buttons (X and V) were moved up, just below the title line and the spacing for short messages (larger font size) is too large it cut off the messages. See attached captured images.


I think the title line should be smaller and show more messages which is important part. And the space between the control buttons and the message should be removed. Personally, I don't like those big buttons occupying relatively large estate of the screen in the middle.
Thoughts?

Update: The cutting edge version 2v27.19 behaves the same.

Thanks.

[gfwilliams]

It looks like you've got the custom fonts installed. If you didn't I think you'll find the rendering is drastically better. The issue is in the example you've chosen on the top line it's chosen to use a bigger 2x font but then the line spacing in the title has to be higher to match that other line spacing. It shouldn't have added the extra line in that case though.

Do you have any code you used to create those messages so I can reproduce here, or did you make them some other way?

[gfwilliams]

I guess there is also an argument that the message gui should use the (much better now) system fonts if the message it's displaying doesn't contain any characters that need the fancy font

[jeonlab]

Hi Gordon,
Yes, I'm using custom international font package for Korean.
The test code was suggested by you (see this post) for testing the encoding issues. I just replaced those uni codes with just English texts to show the screenshots.

[gfwilliams]

Ok, I've just pushed a change to the app loader:

Built-in fonts:

International fonts:

Bear in mind with the new messages app those red/green hints have been moved because you can now just drag up/down to scroll over bigger messages, so if a message doesn't 100% fit on the screen it's not the end of the world.

I haven't changed the messages UI to only use the international font for messages with chars that need it because I think there's a high likelihood things could go wrong and I'm on holiday next week.

[jeonlab]

Hi Gordon,

Thank you so much for your quick updates as always.
Scrolling up/down for longer message is great additional function.

Have a great holidays next week.