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

[Roger Eller]

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" <warren at 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
>> <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<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10995>
>
> Warren
>
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