On 24/05/2011 09:27, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Of course the LCL fails here, because it is not used here, but the > freetype unit.
I did not mean it as trolling, but rather as an idea for improved cross-platform support. I believe I mentioned this font issue with Lazarus some years ago, when we still used LCL in our applications (around v0.9.18 I think). Nothing about this problem has since been changed. LCL does not warn the developer that if they pick a font in the Form Designer (say under Windows), that that font will probably not exist under Linux or Mac or FreeBSD. So that part of LCL is really not cross-platform at all! Luckily freetype will try and pick a similar alternative font - but with no guarantees that it will look good. I was simply suggesting a solution - using what I have done in fpGUI as an example of one such solution. I did not mean it any other way. LCL is developed and promoted as a cross-platform framework, so surely that should translate to the Font usage too? Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
