Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Bo Berglund
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:02:44 +0100, Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Lazarus on my WinXP virtual machine from the fixes_30 branch a couple of weeks ago, but have not used it yet (Xmas and all). Now I just started and found that I needed to set the editor up for my usual look.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Martin
On 17/01/2011 15:57, Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:02:44 +0100, Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Lazarus on my WinXP virtual machine from the fixes_30 branch a couple of weeks ago, but have not used it yet (Xmas and all). Now I just started and found that I

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:26 +, Martin wrote: Also to clarify, you mean: - the current Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently than the released Lazarus 0.9.28(.2) did? - or: Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently than Delphi (or whatever your app of

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Martin
On 17/01/2011 18:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:26 +, Martin wrote: Also to clarify, you mean: - the current Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently than the released Lazarus 0.9.28(.2) did? - or: Lazarus displays a font that is set to 10, differently

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:12:55 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: And yes I know in Lazarus you can specify a font height as pixels (I think it's the negative font size value or something). I never do that, I use the standard GTK font dialog to specify my font size from the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:38:45 +, Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote: As for Bo Berglund's issue, I do not know if he refers to the 2nd issue above, or a 3rd issue (but since he said XP, it wouldn't be the 1st) Well, I just asked because I found it strange on my Windows XP Pro system that

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Martin
On 17/01/2011 20:02, Bo Berglund wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:12:55 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: And yes I know in Lazarus you can specify a font height as pixels (I think it's the negative font size value or something). I never do that, I use the standard GTK font

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Martin
On 17/01/2011 20:13, Bo Berglund wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:38:45 +, Martinlaza...@mfriebe.de wrote: As for Bo Berglund's issue, I do not know if he refers to the 2nd issue above, or a 3rd issue (but since he said XP, it wouldn't be the 1st) Well, I just asked because I found it

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:15:34 +, Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote: Since people ask things like which version are you using can you please tell me how I can find out if I have downloaded from SVN and specified the fixes branch of 0.9.30? I have no experience whatsoever with SVN, just

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 22:16 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: In my case this is what I read from the Help/About: Version #: 0.9.29 Date: 2011-01-02 SVN rev no: 28857 You can right click inside the About dialog. The popup menu will copy all the details to the clipboard, ready to paste in a email. :)

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vladimir Zhirov wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: What would be helpful would be a scoring system: if any of the developers knows that he's just checked something in that might result in an inconsistency a branch (or tag etc.) gets bumped from green to amber, or to red if he knows there's

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 23:28 +, Martin wrote: That's Lazarus for you - after an update, you just don't know what you are going to get. Not sure what to make out of this statement? From the remainder of your reply you took my statement way to seriously. I simply forgot about

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 04:23 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: What would be helpful would be a scoring system: if any of the developers knows that he's just checked something in that might result Simply having 2 or 3 VM images will go a long way too... The developer simply needs to run his

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-16 Thread Martin
On 16/01/2011 13:01, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi Martin, On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 23:28 +, Martin wrote: That's Lazarus for you - after an update, you just don't know what you are going to get. Not sure what to make out of this statement? From the remainder of your reply you took my

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-15 Thread Martin
On 15/01/2011 22:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 18:02 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: Is Lazarus using a different size unit than Delphi is? I usually set the font to 8 or 10 to get a comfortable view of the code but that does not work at all in Lazarus, here I need to set it to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 18:02 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: Is Lazarus using a different size unit than Delphi is? I usually set the font to 8 or 10 to get a comfortable view of the code but that does not work at all in Lazarus, here I need to set it to 16 or even 18. What is

[Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

2011-01-14 Thread Bo Berglund
I installed Lazarus on my WinXP virtual machine from the fixes_30 branch a couple of weeks ago, but have not used it yet (Xmas and all). Now I just started and found that I needed to set the editor up for my usual look. One thing that is very strange is the font size, when I set it to 10, like I