Fonts look awful in standalones built in v5.5+ -vs- v4.0

[Warren Samples]

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
>
> Win7's system font is "Segoe UI".
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511282.aspx
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:26 PM, J. Landman Gay
> <jacque at 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

Warren