Cross-platform font handling, and why you don't want to do it

Neville Smythe neville.smythe at optusnet.com.au
Tue Sep 6 19:32:36 EDT 2022


Bob Sneider wrote:
> The fonts do not get included in a MacOS standalone


embedding fonts in a Mac standalone worked fine for me. Have you checked that the fonts are actually in <yourApp>/Contents/Resources/_MacOS/ and your file path when loading is correct

On the IDE problem
> when I quit Livecode, then relaunch it and open the stack, all the text of the labels appear out of alignment!

 sounds like a timing problem about what resources are available when LiveCode launches and your stack gets to do its font loading (in a pre-open stack handler?) and that the timing on Windows launch is just different.

Neville Smythe






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