LC8 Standalone field sizes.

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Wed Nov 18 15:44:23 EST 2015


Thanks Peter, I remember that happening too.  This is a little different
since it involves different formattedwidth in the same version of LC
depending on whether the stack is run in the IDE or in a standalone.  I
guess I should file a bug report.

Pete
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:

> 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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