Visibility Problem in Windows XP

[Jim Ault]

Aren't there some example fonts stacks on the user area of goRev?
This is not my area at all, but it would seem that downloading something
that works would be a good test.

Also, you might want to build a little test loop that gave you info about
each char in the field, such as

repeat with x = 1 to the number of chars in fld targ
   get (x) && char x of fld targ
   get it && chartonum(char x of fld targ)
   get it && the font of char x of targ
   get it && the fontsize of char x of targ
   get it && the fontcolor of char x of targ

   put it into line x of charDisplay
end repeat

put "-" & the textfont of fld targ & " ---field text font" & cr before
charDisplay
put the fontnames & cr before charDisplay

put charDisplay into the msg

You might be a little surprised at the listing, but perhaps not.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 1/29/07 9:49 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> Charles Szasz wrote:
>> I reported this problem related to fonts not showing up in Windows
>> builds before. And it came back after I recreated my original stack by
>> copying and pasting. I downloaded a Windows version of Revolution and
>> began to fiddle around with the fonts that were not showing up. The
>> problem is definitely related to the font that is being used. In my case
>> I used Arial, which does not work well even with the Windows version of
>> Rev! Aria was highly recommended as one of the fonts you could use on
>> both Windows and the Mac.
>> 
> 
> I've been waiting to see if anyone has anything to add about this, but I
> guess not. I suspect the reason is that no one has seen it (I never
> have.) I regularly use Ariel in stacks on Windows without any problem,
> so I'm not sure why you aren't seeing a display. Does your field text
> contain high-ascii characters? Maybe the Ariel font doesn't contain the
> characters you're using; each font is a little different. That's about
> all I can think of. Ariel does fine on Windows for me. I've never seen a
> centering problem either.
> 
> As an experiment, try making a new stack with a single field and no
> scripts. Type some words in the field and make the field's textfont
> Ariel. Now open it in Windows. Does it display there? If so, then the
> problem is something in your particular stack rather than in the field
> or font.