Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Monte Goulding wrote: > >On 21/08/2013, at 7:52 AM, "J. Landman Gay" >wrote: > >> What a great request. We've needed that for a long time. > > >Blame Trevor for the idea and most of the work ;-) Trevor is guilty of many such ideas :-) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactive

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Terry Judd
What about if you unload the font on suspend and then reload it on resume? Would that prevent other apps from getting hold of it if you switch to them from LC or would they have access to it in the background anyway? Terry... On 21/08/2013, at 09:46 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > Thank you both for

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Roger Eller
Thank you both for the research and actioning a plan to fix this problem. I'm thinking that I only had my standalone running. Possibly LiveCode too in some cases, but I usually close it after building. One thing I considered, but haven't tested is to set the font of the objects which use it to em

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Aug 20, 2013 5:53 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > > > On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > >> > >> Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? > > Nope. I even made sure that the font is not installed on my system,

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Roger Eller
On Aug 20, 2013 5:53 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> >> Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? Nope. I even made sure that the font is not installed on my system, so my system is the same as the end users systems. >> start using

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
On 21/08/2013, at 7:52 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > What a great request. We've needed that for a long time. Blame Trevor for the idea and most of the work ;-) -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! _

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? revFont on windows loads the font globally. I've just sent in a pull request to move revFont into the engine with the syntax: start using font file [globally] Where the default is a privat

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/20/13 4:19 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I'm trying to include a font with a desktop application. I don't want to install the font because the users may not have admin rights. This in on WinXP and Win7. revFontLoad does the trick perfectly, but in my closeStackRequest handler is where I try to u

Re: revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? revFont on windows loads the font globally. I've just sent in a pull request to move revFont into the engine with the syntax: start using font file [globally] Where the default is a private font load so other apps can't lock the fon

revFontUnload Fail

2013-08-20 Thread Roger Eller
I'm trying to include a font with a desktop application. I don't want to install the font because the users may not have admin rights. This in on WinXP and Win7. revFontLoad does the trick perfectly, but in my closeStackRequest handler is where I try to unload the font, and the result is "couldn