I have noticed something strange when using a status bar control on the Mac.
Whenever text is displayed on the status bar, it sometimes seems bold, while at other times it is not. The can happen either as a result of wd 'sbarset' or from implicit status bar updates from menu selections. I am using a tab control to switch between multiple pages. Each time I select a new page, I display a different fixed string in the status bar. The symptom I see most often is that the first time I select a new tab, the status bar text is bold, while subsequent selections of the same tab show the text without being bold. At first I thought it might be something I was doing wrong, but I see similar behavior when running Stdio->Demos... controls. There, using the mouse to move up and down the File menu seems to briefly show the text normally, then quickly boldens it, almost as if paint were being poured. This 'bold' effect does not appear to be caused by selection of a bold font; it does not change the text size, and looks rougher. It looks more as if the text is being overstruck multiple times with a slight horizontal offset. I have observed this on 32-bit J 6 on Mac OS X 1.06. 9!:14'' j602/2008-03-03/16:45 This does not happen on Windows native or java J 6 platforms. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? If so, any ideas on what causes it, or how to make it stop, or at least behave in a more predictable manner? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- Mark D. Niemiec <[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
