Object inspector question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Sep 19 15:18:39 EDT 2016


J. Landman Gay wrote:

 > On 9/19/16 12:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> Font lists tend to be long so I found scrolling in such a cramped
 >> space somewhat annoying (a sentiment I suspect the core team would
 >> share if they spent as much time with the IDE on non-Mac systems),
 >> so I provided a fix along with the enhancement request for a longer
 >> scrolling list:
 >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18029#c3
 >
 > This is one case where the Mac is in full parity with other operating
 > systems. On my Mac running 8.1, I get the default 5 lines in the font
 > list. And yeah, it really needs to be longer, I probably have a
 > couple of hundred fonts.

Yes, as Paul Hibbert reminded me, that's a combobox, not an option 
control, which does indeed work the same on all three desktop platforms.


 > Hopefully your fix will make it into the next build. Thanks for doing
 > that.

Quite happy to help.  Soon (any day now, really <g>) I'll get myself set 
up with git here so I can submit actual pull requests to move those 
things along even more smoothly.   So many little things crop up that 
just a quick one-line fix can resolve easily.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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