>
>In addition, I now find that I cannot set the font of the fields
>manually to any font on my Windows 98 machine. No matter what I choose,
>the font becomes tiny, unreadable, sans-serif something displayed at
>about 8 point with wacky word wrap and half inch gaps between words
>where the spaces are.
>
>There is no "Times" font on my Windows machine, but if set it to "Times"
>manually in the message box, it displays just like on the Mac and looks
>fine (only it doesn't on the client's machines.) If I set it to "Times
>Roman" from the font menu it goes screwy with the tiny sans-serif font.
>
>Looks like something corrupted to me.
Hello,
I can only offer a meager consolation: the fonts have actually been
my worst and most time-consuming problem ever since I started using
MC on both Mac and PC. My experiences so far: I just use "Geneva" on
Mac and "Arial" and "MS Sans Serif" on PC.
"Helvetica" which MC recommends, is not available as standard font on
PC (I may be wrong, but that's what I have seen so far). I have also
experienced problems with resetting the fonts when converting a stack
from SuperCard in which the textfont used was Helvetica.
One thing which I wish MC would do something about is the way Font
Chooser acts. The very first time you use it it behaves as it should.
The next times very often you change a font or another attribute
there and nothing happens.
Or when you ask in the msg: "put the textfont of fld ..." it says one
thing, if you ask "put the textfont of char 1 to -1 of fld ..." it
says another. Only the last one gives the correct answer in some
cases.
The problems arise since I often use various attributes for the same
field on the two platforms. Sometimes one word is highlighted by
using bold, or set in another colour. So what I do now (of which I
have no guarantee of the consistency): If the text is permanent I set
the font attributes of the field for the platforms in
preOpenCard-handlers.
The real problems start when new text is put into the same field. I
have not been able to test out all the variants of MC behaviour when
I empty the field, or "set the textfont of fld ... to empty" (as
Monte Goulding also suggested) before putting the new test into the
field.
The scripts I use may be like this one:
if the platform = "macos" then
set the textfont of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to geneva
set the textsize of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to 16
set the textstyle of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to bold
set the textheight of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to 22
end if
if the platform = "win32" then
set the textfont of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to arial
set the textsize of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to 18
set the textstyle of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to plain
set the textheight of fld "setn" of cd "oevkort" to 20
end if
But very often it seems to be necessary to add "...of char 1 to -1
of fld..." (not for the textheight, but for the others). Specifying
the chars does not work with buttons, only with fields.
Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to maintain separate
versions for the platforms, but having just one version has been my
choice so far.
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