Thank you for confirming and filing a bug report. What I had to do was case the platform, and loop through all the fields and buttons, explicitly setting the font according to the Windows version standard. I have NEVER had to do this prior to LC 5.5.x and 6.x.x.
~Roger On Jul 6, 2013 9:21 AM, "Warren Samples" <war...@warrensweb.us> wrote: > On 06/25/2013 09:52 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > >> I tried setting the textfont of this stack to the textfont of stack >> "home". >> Still it returned empty when I put the textFont of any field in my stack. >> >> I have users on XP and 7, so I think I will just loop through all the >> fields in preOpenStack and set the appropriate textFont. I'll report back >> if it still looks weird. >> >> XP's system font is "Tahoma". >> http://support.microsoft.com/**kb/823033<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823033> >> >> Win7's system font is "Segoe UI". >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/library/windows/desktop/**aa511282.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511282.aspx> >> >> ~Roger >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:26 PM, J. Landman Gay >> <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>**wrote: >> >> On 6/24/13 9:14 PM, Roger Eller wrote: >>> >>> This isn't for mobile. I'm seeing this difference on the same machine. >>>> It's >>>> just IDE -vs- standalone for Windows. >>>> >>>> > Roger, what did your users find? I find that one needs to explicitly set > the text font and the text size in order to get readable text in a > standalone in Windows 7 and 8. Of course, setting the text size means > users' system settings, which may reflect their own needs and preferences, > are overridden. I don't believe this is an acceptable default practice. > > I have filed a bug, which seems to have not generated any interest from > the devs, with a stack and a screenshot of that stack in the IDE alongside > its built standalone, as well as the example Windows standalone. > http://quality.runrev.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=10995<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10995> > > Warren > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<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
