Re: textStyle and Italic
The information is in the release notes, and the behavior brings font management into conformance with how mobile font styling works (there are no simulated styles on mobile.) The IDE reports italics because that's what was assigned and the engine apparently keeps the designation though it no longer can render it. The IDE must be using that info to do a font substitution or something similar. Your own scripts could do the same. On December 13, 2014 1:44:07 AM CST, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote: Do you get informed of this in some way in your method calls? Why does the IDE say Italic when it isn’t? All the best Terry On 12 Dec 2014, at 18:24, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: It's worth noting that the previous OS X routines used synthesised font styles. That is, bold and italic styles were emulated (by slanting or thickening) ___ 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 -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ 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
textStyle and Italic
LC Community 6.7.1 (RC3) OSX Yosemite Created a new project to test and placed a text entry field on it. Changed textFormat to Lucida Grande, 14, Italic. Entered text and it was not Italic despite the property inspector saying it was Italic. Is there a bug? All the best Terry ___ 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: textStyle and Italic
On 12/12/2014, 8:12 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: LC Community 6.7.1 (RC3) OSX Yosemite Created a new project to test and placed a text entry field on it. Changed textFormat to Lucida Grande, 14, Italic. Entered text and it was not Italic despite the property inspector saying it was Italic. Is there a bug? No, it's a change in how fonts are rendered. See the release notes for version 6.7: It's worth noting that the previous OS X routines used synthesised font styles. That is, bold and italic styles were emulated (by slanting or thickening) if the font being rendered was not bold or italic. This is not the case for the new routines. If there is not a font present on the system with the given style, the plain alternative will be used. The is the case with the default font - Lucida Grande. By default, systems only come with the bold variant. Thus, if you have a field with the default font and italic style, it will be rendered in plain style. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ 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: textStyle and Italic
That being the case, it would be nice if the fontStyles function worked. Currently, no matter what font you input it always shows the same result, even if the font does not have the variant: plain bold italic bold-italic I did file a bug report almost a year ago - Bug 10650 Marty Knapp On 12/12/2014, 8:12 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: LC Community 6.7.1 (RC3) OSX Yosemite Created a new project to test and placed a text entry field on it. Changed textFormat to Lucida Grande, 14, Italic. Entered text and it was not Italic despite the property inspector saying it was Italic. Is there a bug? No, it's a change in how fonts are rendered. See the release notes for version 6.7: It's worth noting that the previous OS X routines used synthesised font styles. That is, bold and italic styles were emulated (by slanting or thickening) if the font being rendered was not bold or italic. This is not the case for the new routines. If there is not a font present on the system with the given style, the plain alternative will be used. The is the case with the default font - Lucida Grande. By default, systems only come with the bold variant. Thus, if you have a field with the default font and italic style, it will be rendered in plain style. ___ 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: textStyle and Italic
On 12/12/2014, 12:34 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: That being the case, it would be nice if the fontStyles function worked. Currently, no matter what font you input it always shows the same result, even if the font does not have the variant: plain bold italic bold-italic I did file a bug report almost a year ago - Bug 10650 I think technically they are no longer fontstyles, they are fontnames. You can filter the fontnames with the particular font you are looking for and see what styles are available. It would be nice if the engine could map those for us though, since not all fonts follow the same naming scheme. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ 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: textStyle and Italic
Do you get informed of this in some way in your method calls? Why does the IDE say Italic when it isn’t? All the best Terry On 12 Dec 2014, at 18:24, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: It's worth noting that the previous OS X routines used synthesised font styles. That is, bold and italic styles were emulated (by slanting or thickening) ___ 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
