On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/11 7:58 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > >> OK - I think we're going around in circles. All I was trying to say was that >> for me getting the effective textFont and textSize of a new stack returns >> the appropriate values for the system font and size on OSX. Given that you >> can't (easily) change the system font then you shouldn't need to do anything >> to match your stack's font settings to the system settings on OSX. > > Right. Richard was explaining that the IDE sets that up for you, it > isn't in the engine. On startup, the IDE sets the font and size of the > Home stack to appropriate OS defaults. That's where font inheritance > will come from when you get the "effective" font properties. > > If Home doesn't have a font set, then you get the engine default when > you query the effective font properties. The engine defaults to > Helvetica 14. > > THe upshoot is that the effective textfont in the IDE is the one that's > been set up in Home on startup. But if you depend on that method in a > standalone, you'll get Helvetica 14 every time. In a standalone the fix > is to do the same setup for your stack that the IDE does for you when it > starts up. Really? I just created a new stack, dragged a field onto it, typed in some text, saved it and created an OSX standalone - no fonts or sizes set anywhere. When I launched the standalone the text displayed in Lucinda Grande 11 point. Terry... -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Education Unit Melbourne Medical School The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
