scriptTextFont

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte wrote:

> On 14/12/2013, at 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>> In LC 6.5 the scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize global properties are empty.
>>
>> How does one obtain the font and size set in prefs used by the script editor?
>
> Here's some code from my diff field:
>
>    dispatch function "sePrefGet" to stack "revNewScriptEditor" with "editor,backgroundcolor"
>    set the backColor of me to the result
>    dispatch function "sePrefGet" to stack "revNewScriptEditor" with "editor,font"
>    set the textFont of me to the result
>    dispatch function "sePrefGet" to stack "revNewScriptEditor" with "editor,fontsize"
>    set the textSize of me to the result
>    _internal script colorize char 1 to (the number of chars of me) of me
>>
>> And why doesn't the IDE use the built-in properties for that?
>
> No idea

I filed a bug against it, as those properties are very useful to folks 
making IDE tools to ensure we display script-related stuff that reflect 
the user's preferences:

<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11596>

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