Fouled up my menubar - found the problem but it's weird

[Barry Levine]

Turned out the menubar group was "there" but it had no font nor size 
set for it. I was able to open the distribution stack (it was not the 
main stack) under the Rev IDE and found that, until I set a textFont 
and textSize for it, the words did not appear!

I was under the impression that I did not have to specifically assign 
fonts/sizes to the various elements that had those properties (like 
fields, buttons, etc.). The docs say that setting the textFont property 
of the stack sets that particular font for everything else in that 
stack that is not already specifically configured otherwise. Am I 
misunderstanding this?

I've also seen (in Windows, anyway) that setting the stack's textFont 
to Arial and textSize to 12, but leaving the menubar group's 
textFont/textSize properties blank, results in the menubar only being a 
textSize of 10 (might be 9) in the distribution stack. I've also seen 
this kind of inconsistent behavior in other elements (fields, buttons) 
in both Mac and Windows; fonts and sizes - even under the same platform 
- being set by forces unknown. So I'm thinking that there's got to be 
something I'm doing wrong because Rev just couldn't be so capricious 
and inconsistent in font handling.

Someone care to whip a little knowledge about this topic in my 
direction? Let's assume that my Windows fonts should all be Arial 12 as 
a starting point.

Thanks,
Barry