Re: LC8 Standalone field sizes.

2015-11-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Mark, This is on OSX 10.10. Just filed QCC report 16455 with sample stack and standalone. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Mark

Re: LC8 Standalone field sizes.

2015-11-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi Peter, On 2015-11-18 18:43, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm seeing a slight difference in the width of fields required to hold a given amount of text in the LC8 IDE and LC8 standalone. Which platform are you seeing this on? Using one field as an example, I displayed the effective font, size, an

Re: LC8 Standalone field sizes.

2015-11-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Peter, I remember that happening too. This is a little different since it involves different formattedwidth in the same version of LC depending on whether the stack is run in the IDE or in a standalone. I guess I should file a bug report. Pete lcSQL Software Home of

Re: LC8 Standalone field sizes.

2015-11-18 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I saw that when moving my application from LC 6 to LC 7, Helvetica was displaying wider. My bug report on the issue had this reply: "Unfortunately when we moved to Cocoa we were forced to move to use CoreText rather than the (now ancient) QuickDraw APIs for drawing text. The metrics of certain