LC8 Standalone field sizes.

[Peter Bogdanoff]

I saw that when moving my application from LC 6 to LC 7, Helvetica was displaying wider.

My bug report on the issue had this reply:

"Unfortunately when we moved to Cocoa we were forced to move to use CoreText rather than the (now ancient) QuickDraw APIs for drawing text. The metrics of certain fonts when rendered with CoreText are different from that of QuickDraw and as a result, you will see a difference when jumping from < 6.7 to >= 6.7.”

But I have no knowledge why you get varied results within LC 8.

Peter


On Nov 18, 2015, at 9:43 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I'm seeing a slight difference in the width of fields required to hold a
> given amount of text in the LC8 IDE and LC8 standalone.
> 
> Using one field as an example, I displayed the effective font, size, and
> formatted width in the IDE and in the standalone.  The font/size were
> Helvetica Neue/14 in both cases but the formatted width is 128 in the IDE
> and 138 in the standalone so the text is chopped off in the standalone.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Pete
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