[ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger Guay wrote:

 > Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> Also, what issues have you found with font selection/text editing in
 >> v8 that are not present in earlier versions?
 >
 > An unwieldy font list for one. It would be great if it were typing
 > reactive or if it had a letter index like I have in FontLab.
...
 > I may have misspoke about v8 being different from earlier versions.
 > Sorry if that’s the case, I didn’t mean to go over the differences
 > in the properties inspector like we already did ad nauseum.

Au contraire, while tools like yours that provide additional 
functionality are very welcome, we also need to use experience in the 
core product to be as good as possible.

I discovered this morning that I'd never gotten around to flagging the 
very short number of items visible in the Font list on Win and Linux in 
the bug DB (only five), now submitted:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18029

The ability to type to select is so common on all platforms I flagged 
that as a bug some time ago:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5512

There are also some other anomalies with option controls on non-Mac 
platforms, and like the previous one about type-to-select they're things 
my customers have complained to me about:

Tabbing leave option control's menu up
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5513

menuhistory not updated when changing option controls via keyboard
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5505

I know the team has a long queue of high-priority items, but when time 
permits fine-tuning the option control to meet HIG specs on non-Mac 
platforms would go a long way toward making LiveCode shine for new users 
as a solution for making great multi-platform apps.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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