default textsize and textfont?

[Richard Gaskin]

Terry Judd wrote:

> Can't you just query the effective textFont and textSize of a 'virgin'
> stack? On OSX this returns Lucinda Grande and 11 as it should.

It would be nice if the engine's default matched the current OS system 
font default, but alas AFAIK the engine's default is Helvetica 14.

In the LiveCode IDE a new stack will take on the settings of the Home 
stack, which the IDE sets at startup and as we need to do in our 
standalones.

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