Revised Font Chooser and Preferences stacks

[Richard Gaskin]

Klaus Major wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> hope you had a good time at RevConWest! :-)

Almost as much fun as I had watching your message passing sketch at ERC. :)

>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> I have uploaded a revised Preferences stack and a Font Chooser stack 
>>> to the Files section of the MC IDE Yahoo group.
>>> The Font Chooser stack contains a list field for font names rather 
>>> than a popup button. I've been using this privately for a while and I 
>>> like it much better. Anyone who has as many fonts as I do will see 
>>> the advantages of a list, I think.
>>> I have also made some changes to the Preferences stack so that it now 
>>> supports a stackFileVersion preference. I could not think of a 
>>> suitable way to change this setting on the fly, but the new stack 
>>> does allow you to permanently set the preference, which will stay in 
>>> effect until you change it. It checks for the engine version and is 
>>> not effective unless the version is 2.7 or higher.
>>> I didn't want to add a new prefs pane just for this one setting, so 
>>> it is at the bottom of the "Look and Feel" group. I know that isn't 
>>> strictly what it is for, but the other choices were worse.
>>> If people agree, Richard can grab these and put them in the distro.
>>
>> Tariel has rightfully demanded that I get off my butt and post the 
>> last MC IDE build.  He's right -- it's way overdue.
>> To wrap it up I was going to fold in these two changes from Jacque -- 
>> any reason why I shouldn't?
> 
> Not that i knew.

In the interest of expediency I'll put those into the next build, and if 
we get a lot of complaints they can be backed out later (though I don't 
anticipate we will, since they're useful additions).

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  Richard Gaskin
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