default textsize and textfont?

[Terry Judd]

Can't you just query the effective textFont and textSize of a 'virgin'
stack? On OSX this returns Lucinda Grande and 11 as it should.

Terry...


On 06/07/2011 08:47 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Kee Nethery wrote:
> 
>> Actually I think on the Mac it is textfont=Lucinda Grande textsize = 11
>> 
>> On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Kee Nethery wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mac OS X I think the default textsize is 10 and the default textfont is
>>> Lucinda Grande.
>>> If someone wants to give me the defaults for Windows, (and confirm my guess
>>> for the Mac) I'll add it as a note to the livecode documentation.
>>> 
>>> If there is some script command to see what it actually is, that would be
>>> useful also.
> 
> Stepping into Jacque's time machine, since LiveCode is a cross-platform
> dev tool of course setting the font and size for control text is a
> simple one-step action:  just set the useSystemFont property and the
> engine will determine the current font settings and apply them
> appropriately.
> 
> But unfortunately, that only works if you have Jacque's time machine:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5190>
> 
> In the here-and-now, you'll have to set these to the published defaults
> and hope that the user hasn't changed them.
> 
> On Windows 7 the font is Segoe UI:
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511282.aspx>
> 
> While the true point size is 9, since LiveCode uses px rather than pt I
> find 12 is a good match.
> 
> On Linux I set the font to "Ubuntu", which works great on Ubuntu and
> will fall back to the engine's default, Helvetica, if not found, which
> is generally okay for most distros.
> 
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Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
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