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wmayer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:01 am The culprit of the bad look is this line:

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sansFont.setStretch(QFont::ExtraCondensed);

When commenting it out the text looks much better.

• D dexter (Right)
  S sinister (Left)
  B bottom
  T top
  R rear
  F front

• R right
  L left
  U underside
  T top
  B back
  F front

Thanks for your finding. Interesting... maybe its some kind of bug in Qt for Windows?

Does the bottom layer label still fit within the face boundaries when it's commented out?

With this offending line I could squeeze in a larger font on a face while making the cube smaller and still keep the same readability level. But with this being broken on Windows we shouldn't merge this PR for sure! Thanks again for verifying this.
I might try the Windows build next time before making a pull request, but I don't have the toolchain set up on Windows yet. I won't be able to verify the macOS build though - not a mac owner.

wmayer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:56 am

Thanks for your finding. Interesting... maybe its some kind of bug in Qt for Windows?

Possible. At least with Qt4.8 it looks good and there is no change required. With Qt5.6 or Qt5.12 the change is required.

Does the bottom layer label still fit within the face boundaries when it's commented out?

It's clearly outside of the cube's face. The letters "B" and "m" lie on the rounded edges of the cube.

I guess this has something to do that in Qt5.x the whole OpenGL support has been reworked. I remember that in the old QGLWidget class there was a method to paint text and with the workarounds for Qt5 the text looks really ugly.

For the Image module I once found a nice solution based on QPainterPath and the rendered text looks nice. See GLImageBox::renderText. Maybe the same idea (at least for Qt5 on Windows) could be applied on the NaviCube.

With this offending line I could squeeze in a larger font on a face while making the cube smaller and still keep the same readability level. But with this being broken on Windows we shouldn't merge this PR for sure! Thanks again for verifying this.
I might try the Windows build next time before making a pull request, but I don't have the toolchain set up on Windows yet. I won't be able to verify the macOS build though - not a mac owner.

I once had the situation that text painted on a GL canvas was truncated and after upgrading the graphic driver the issue was gone. So, it's possible that on your system it might look good but then on another computer it doesn't.

New and old look comparison attached. Left is the new one

wmayer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:52 am Keep in mind that there are users with relative small displays and when a page has too many controls then it affects usability (if things work correctly then a scrollbar is shown, if not then the page is truncated).

easyw-fc wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:47 am TOP
BTM
FRNT
REAR
LFT
RX
SX

    #                    North
    #
    #                +-----------+
    #               /           /|
    #              /  Top      / |
    #             /           /  |
    #            /           /   |
    #           +-----------+    |
    #           |           |    +
    #           |           |   /    East
    #   West    |   South   |  /
    #           |           | /
    #           |           |/
    #           +-----------+
    #   z
    #   ^          Bottom
    #   |   y
    #   | /
    #   |/
    #   +------> x