AW the fontnames and special names like (Menu)

[Paul Dupuis]

A confirmed bug:

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22564

On 2/4/2020 12:27 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> The fontnames() function returns certain special font names like:
> (Default)
> (Styled Text)
> (Menu)
> (Text)
> (Message)
> (Tooltip)
> (System)
>
> How do I find out what fonts these really are on a given platform. The 
> effective textFont does not seem to work.
>
> For example the following code on Windows 10,
>
> set the textFont of fld 1 to "(Text)"
> put the effective textFont of fld 1
>
> outputs "(Text)" when I would have expected it to output "Segoe UI"
>
> Is this a bug?
>
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