Font sizes and Ubuntu versions
This may be a bit of a niche problem [a niche consisting of me, myself and I], but problem it is, nevertheless (nice spot of grammatical inversion there): A series of EFL standalones I authored with LC/RR 2.2.1 on Linux about 6/7 years ago have been causing me some problems recently. All of those stacks were authored with the textFields set to a fontSize of 24. Until recently I was running the PCs in my school on Edubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.something, and the textFields were displaying text at size 24. I am gently changing my machines over to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS [and, thanks to the very sound advice from Mark Wieder, putting the 'Home' folder on a separate partition to the 'Root' partition; speeds things up no end]. BUT, now those standalones are displaying text at size 10! This is a PIB to say the least. So, here I am on my day off looking at the source stacks and feeling foolish. I have to do ONE thing, which I wonder how to do: and that is to guarantee that the texts will display at size 24. I don't know whether the problem has been because the textSize was set for each stack individually (rather than for either the card or the stack), whether this is something to do with the fact that they contain the 2.2.1 Linux engine (that is easily rectified), or something else. HOWEVER, as these standalones are used to fairly good effect on an almost daily basis I don't want to: 1. Chuck them out. 2. Put all the PCs back to Edubuntu 7.10. 3. Rewrite everything from scratch. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Font sizes and Ubuntu versions
Hi Richmond, Could it be that the font names have changed on Xubuntu 12.04? Or the font is not present on Xubuntu 12.04? I see the same thing when I work with a font and the font is not installed on the pc the app is used on. greetings, William 2014-03-19 9:37 GMT+01:00 Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com: This may be a bit of a niche problem [a niche consisting of me, myself and I], but problem it is, nevertheless (nice spot of grammatical inversion there): A series of EFL standalones I authored with LC/RR 2.2.1 on Linux about 6/7 years ago have been causing me some problems recently. All of those stacks were authored with the textFields set to a fontSize of 24. Until recently I was running the PCs in my school on Edubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.something, and the textFields were displaying text at size 24. I am gently changing my machines over to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS [and, thanks to the very sound advice from Mark Wieder, putting the 'Home' folder on a separate partition to the 'Root' partition; speeds things up no end]. BUT, now those standalones are displaying text at size 10! This is a PIB to say the least. So, here I am on my day off looking at the source stacks and feeling foolish. I have to do ONE thing, which I wonder how to do: and that is to guarantee that the texts will display at size 24. I don't know whether the problem has been because the textSize was set for each stack individually (rather than for either the card or the stack), whether this is something to do with the fact that they contain the 2.2.1 Linux engine (that is easily rectified), or something else. HOWEVER, as these standalones are used to fairly good effect on an almost daily basis I don't want to: 1. Chuck them out. 2. Put all the PCs back to Edubuntu 7.10. 3. Rewrite everything from scratch. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Font sizes and Ubuntu versions
On 19/03/14 10:59, William de Smet wrote: Hi Richmond, Could it be that the font names have changed on Xubuntu 12.04? Or the font is not present on Xubuntu 12.04? I see the same thing when I work with a font and the font is not installed on the pc the app is used on. That's certainly a thought. I have to go back and look at the original stacks. What I cannot remember is whether I set the textFont as well as the textSize. However, whether the textFont was set or not, I cannot quite work out why the textSize is not preserved. Richmond. greetings, William 2014-03-19 9:37 GMT+01:00 Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com: This may be a bit of a niche problem [a niche consisting of me, myself and I], but problem it is, nevertheless (nice spot of grammatical inversion there): A series of EFL standalones I authored with LC/RR 2.2.1 on Linux about 6/7 years ago have been causing me some problems recently. All of those stacks were authored with the textFields set to a fontSize of 24. Until recently I was running the PCs in my school on Edubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.something, and the textFields were displaying text at size 24. I am gently changing my machines over to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS [and, thanks to the very sound advice from Mark Wieder, putting the 'Home' folder on a separate partition to the 'Root' partition; speeds things up no end]. BUT, now those standalones are displaying text at size 10! This is a PIB to say the least. So, here I am on my day off looking at the source stacks and feeling foolish. I have to do ONE thing, which I wonder how to do: and that is to guarantee that the texts will display at size 24. I don't know whether the problem has been because the textSize was set for each stack individually (rather than for either the card or the stack), whether this is something to do with the fact that they contain the 2.2.1 Linux engine (that is easily rectified), or something else. HOWEVER, as these standalones are used to fairly good effect on an almost daily basis I don't want to: 1. Chuck them out. 2. Put all the PCs back to Edubuntu 7.10. 3. Rewrite everything from scratch. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Font sizes and Ubuntu versions
Thanks, William de Smet. The problem has now been resolved (if that's what building a whole slew of standalones all over again means): http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=20t=19647p=99475#p99475 This problem may also crop up with other people transferring standalones written for earlier recensions of operating systems onto more recent ones. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
