This one's going into my LiveCode Keepers Folder! Nice fix.
Bob
On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
> Camm,
>
> Open up your stack in Rev as Topstack and before you make a standalone, type
> this in the message box:
>
> set the textfont of the topstack to "Tahoma"
>
> Then pr
Chipp ,
Perfect Many thanks !
Regards
Camm
-Original Message-
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[mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chipp Walters
Sent: 28 July 2011 02:00
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Tahoma Font
Camm
Camm,
Open up your stack in Rev as Topstack and before you make a standalone, type
this in the message box:
set the textfont of the topstack to "Tahoma"
Then press enter and save your stack. Now make a standalone and see if it
doesn't work. If Tahoma is installed on a Windows users machine, it
This may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131943
Bob
On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Camm wrote:
> Well , my issue is just with windows ?
> The Tahoma font is their during development mode but vanishes in Standalone
> on XP.
> If I set the properties of the standalone.exe in Windows to 95 or
IC. I mentioned the shell because if the end user is not an admin, and you want
the font installed universally, then the only way I know to do that is to use
sudo in a terminal for Mac (and presumably unix/linux), and Run As in a command
line for Windows.
It sure sounds like a font conflict. T
Well , my issue is just with windows ?
The Tahoma font is their during development mode but vanishes in Standalone
on XP.
If I set the properties of the standalone.exe in Windows to 95 or 98
compatibility it returns ?
How do I force load a font on startup ?
Best Regards
Camm
-Original Messa
The reason I ask is that about 1% of my customers are finding that my
app (which uses revFontLoad) does not load the font, which is tucked
inside the application bundle. The result returns a not very helpful
"unable to load font" message. When the application starts up it looks
in the fontnames
I also found this. Haven't tried it though.
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Bob
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Marty Knapp wrote:
> I've not tinkered with shell commands - what is the shell command for
> installing fonts on Mac?
>
> Marty K
>> It's been an assumption of mine that if planning
You just put the font file into /System/Library/Fonts. You have to shell it if
the user is not an admin because of permissions. The shell command is simply
the one to copy, but you may have to sudo it because it is in the System
package. Alternately you could put the font into the user's font fo
I've not tinkered with shell commands - what is the shell command for
installing fonts on Mac?
Marty K
It's been an assumption of mine that if planning for standalone application
cross platform support, there are three approaches:
1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy w
I should have prefaced it with, "In the spirit of rapid application
development...". :-)
On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>
>> 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows
>> and Apple,
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows
> and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors. 2. Create an
> installer that includes the truetype fonts you use, and install them via a
> shell. This of
It's been an assumption of mine that if planning for standalone application
cross platform support, there are three approaches:
1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows and
Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors.
2. Create an installer that includes
On 7/26/11 4:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
I personally have been fighting a lot with cross platform font issues and
find it a chore. When using stacks' non-default fonts/sizes, I've found no
other solution than to brute-force set these upon opening stacks. Maybe
someone else knows the secrets for
I personally have been fighting a lot with cross platform font issues and
find it a chore. When using stacks' non-default fonts/sizes, I've found no
other solution than to brute-force set these upon opening stacks. Maybe
someone else knows the secrets for handling this better.
Have you made cert
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