On Feb 25, 2006, at 11:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess we have been over this before but I am still not
understanding a
practical method. When I draw a canvas on mac, I can set the
textsize g.textsize =
9 or 15 or whatever and it works. However, the exact same code on
windows
give me the same textsize no matter what I set it too (including
small system
size). I believe that someone said the answer was to set the font
in Windows -
however I am afraid to do this becuase if I look for a font that is
not there,
then it will crash the program. Is there a good way to be able get
smaller text
to display in Windows?
"System" and "SmallSystem" are aliases for the default system font --
on each platform and even each machine these fonts could be
different. It just so happens that on many Windows systems the
default fonts are special bitmap fonts that can only be displayed at
a single point size.
All you need to do to fix this issue is to change the font to
something else, such as Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, etc... then your
sizes will work, but all applications would use Arial.
To only change Windows builds, create a global string Constant
"MySystem" and/or "MySmallSystem" and set the Macintosh and Linux
properties to "System" or "SmallSystem" as appropriate. Define the
Windows property to the font of your choice. Then to apply these
font values to Controls in the IDE, you would enter "#MySystem" and
the compiler will insert the font from the Constant at compile time.
For drawing on a Canvas, just use "Graphics.TextFont = MySystem".
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