At 4:19 PM -0700 7/25/00, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote:
>
>>>> Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running
>>>> MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On
>>>> Windows, probably MS Sans Serif.
>>>
>>> Set the font to 0 (zero)
>>
>> Aha!! Whee! Thanks. :)
>>
>> Does this work on Windows too?
>
>Seems to. Since I got the G4 I've been doing more work on my Mac (helps
>that I upgraded that monitor as well -- need lotsa space for all those
>palettes <g>), and I've found that at least setting the property there gets
>fonts mapped correctly for Windows as well.
>
>Since the 0 is not documented (is it?), I'm only guessing that it's
>reliable; seems to work well here on both platforms.
Old thread, but a new discovery.
The zero won't work on Japanese Windows. At least it won't set a font
that can display two-byte Japanese. However, while playing around, I
found that the <fontnames> function on Windows returns an item named
"System". Setting the textfont to "System" on Windows seems to work
just as you might expect. I'm wondering if this can be used as a
general feature on Windows to ensure a font that will display the
language of the OS. Can anyone confirm this for Chinese, etc.?
While wondering if the inclusion of "System" in the fontnames was a
Windows thing or a new Metacard feature, I checked on my Mac. No
"System" listed, but a mysterious item called ".lastresort" caught my
eye. I'm sure this wasn't there on previous Metacard versions.
Anyway, setting the textfont to ".lastresort" produced
Chicago/Charcoal on the Mac.
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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