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

[Roger Eller]

This isn't for mobile. I'm seeing this difference on the same machine. It's
just IDE -vs- standalone for Windows.

~Roger
On Jun 24, 2013 10:07 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 6/24/13 3:43 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
>
>> In an attempt to bring my stacks out of the dark ages of Revolution 4.0, I
>> am moving forward, but text is becoming extremely bitmapped in appearance.
>>   I have tried LiveCode 5.5.4, 5.5.5, and 6.0.2, all with the same
>> results.
>>   In all cases, the stacks look fine in the IDE, but as a standalone they
>> get ugly.  Why?
>>
>> For the sake of providing the details, I am running Windows 7 in Fusion
>> 5.02 on OS 10.8.3.  I am using the stack runner approach, where the
>> standalone is the executable (with everything checked for inclusion).  The
>> fonts are the defaults from the IDE.  I drag a field to a stack and name
>> it, that's all.  So why are they changing?
>>
>
> The symptoms sound like a missing font. The default IDE font is the OS
> system font which is likely not available on mobile. Theoretically if you
> have never set a font, the system font of the OS should be used, but the
> IDE may be setting the font on the stack or on some of the fields.
>
> Before saving the standalone, you could run a script that sets the font of
> the stack and card to empty, and if that doesn't work, setting the font of
> the field and other objects to empty too.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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