Kee Nethery wrote:
Actually I think on the Mac it is textfont=Lucinda Grande textsize = 11
On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Kee Nethery wrote:
On Mac OS X I think the default textsize is 10 and the default textfont is
Lucinda Grande.
If someone wants to give me the defaults for Windows, (and confirm my guess for
the Mac) I'll add it as a note to the livecode documentation.
If there is some script command to see what it actually is, that would be
useful also.
Stepping into Jacque's time machine, since LiveCode is a cross-platform
dev tool of course setting the font and size for control text is a
simple one-step action: just set the useSystemFont property and the
engine will determine the current font settings and apply them
appropriately.
But unfortunately, that only works if you have Jacque's time machine:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5190>
In the here-and-now, you'll have to set these to the published defaults
and hope that the user hasn't changed them.
On Windows 7 the font is Segoe UI:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511282.aspx>
While the true point size is 9, since LiveCode uses px rather than pt I
find 12 is a good match.
On Linux I set the font to "Ubuntu", which works great on Ubuntu and
will fall back to the engine's default, Helvetica, if not found, which
is generally okay for most distros.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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