Re: System font
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 _ The LACS Centre (Business English Training Resources) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lacscentre.co.uk _ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
System font
I saw this asked before but no answer was ever given: 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. It's the Mac interface I particularly need to know. When designing custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the user's selected system font. Can I get this info? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this asked before but no answer was ever given: 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. It's the Mac interface I particularly need to know. When designing custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the user's selected system font. Can I get this info? At present, a good solution to this particluar problem isn't present. On the Mac you can kludge it by setting the font to a non-existant face name which will use the large system font. On Windows, you can read the font from the Registry. Regards, Kevin Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
Kevin Miller wrote: On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When designing custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the user's selected system font. Can I get this info? At present, a good solution to this particluar problem isn't present. On the Mac you can kludge it by setting the font to a non-existant face name which will use the large system font. On Windows, you can read the font from the Registry. Thanks Kevin. Unfortunately, the default font MC supplies is the small system font on a Mac (Geneva) which is a pretty good choice for most fields, but isn't right for buttons. Those need the menu font. :( Scott: Feature request? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
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) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
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? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 1:53 PM:
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)
MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system
font (Charcoal) didn't display right.
With the externals collection (maybe other xcmds as well) to run
AppleScripts, you could run the following to get the system font:
tell application "Appearance"
the system font of the current theme
end tell
Presumably that could be translated into an apple event, so you could do
it directly with MetaCard's built-in send command, but I've never
developed the skill of translating from applescript to apple events.
gc
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Re: System font
Geoff Canyon 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) MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system font (Charcoal) didn't display right. What exactly happened? Could it be an anti-aliasing issue? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
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. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: System font
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 4:21 PM: MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system font (Charcoal) didn't display right. What exactly happened? Could it be an anti-aliasing issue? Nope, an old-fashioned brain freeze. My system font is Charcoal. The default font size for a button is 14. I set the font (not the size) to 0, saw something that looked funky in comparison to the text in the menu bar (which is 12 point) and jumped to conclusions. Once I set the button to 12 point, all was right with the world. Sorry--I'll slink back to my corner now... :-) Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
