Developing on Mac, standalone on Windows

[Warren Samples]

On 01/22/2012 11:55 PM, Pete wrote:
> I just compiled and ran my fist standalone on Windows and I'm finally
> realising the benefits of developing cross platform applications with LC.
>   I was pretty amazed when everything I developed on my Mac just ran as
> expected on Windows!
>
> The on;y problem I need to address concerns fonts.  I have a very few
> controls that depend on font size to correctly position themselves around
> other, non-textobjects and it seems that LC's default font on WIndows is
> different than on a Mac, or at least the font size/spacing is.
>
> I left the font and size blank in almost all of my controls' text
> formatting options but perhaps I need to name a specific font to have
> things line up correctly on OS X and Windows?
>
>
> -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>


It may be worth the time to build a small app that lets you play with 
things like font choice and size, and text margins and run it as a 
standalone - margins and alignment are not always the same in a 
standalone as in the IDE - in whatever platforms (and various versions 
of these OSs!) you want to deploy in. It can be fairly simple and not 
really all that time consuming but may be very illuminating and helpful. 
This would leave you the ability to confidently set such things 
conditionally.

Warren