Here is some unhelpful information from the dictionary: The list of font names includes a set of special-purpose names which automatically select the matching font for the platform. You can use these to request "the font used for buttons" without having to hard-code platform-specific font names. These fonts are: - (Text) - the font used for fields and other controls with editable content - (Menu) - the font used for menu items - (Message) - the font used for buttons, labels and other communication from the app - (Styled Text) - the font used by default for rich text - (System) - the font for controls not covered by another category - (Tooltip) - the font used for displaying tooltips - (Default) - selects one of the UI fonts automatically based on the control type
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> Sent: Tue, Feb 4, 2020 12:28 pm Subject: the fontnames and special names like (Menu) The fontnames() function returns certain special font names like: (Default) (Styled Text) (Menu) (Text) (Message) (Tooltip) (System) How do I find out what fonts these really are on a given platform. The effective textFont does not seem to work. For example the following code on Windows 10, set the textFont of fld 1 to "(Text)" put the effective textFont of fld 1 outputs "(Text)" when I would have expected it to output "Segoe UI" Is this a bug? _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
