Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > On Jan 4, 2017, at 12:39 , Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Are the buttons narrower or is the font larger? >> >> If the latter, try setting the font size of the stack. >> >> By default LC will use the OS default font and size, which is >> smaller on Windows than on most Linux

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Um, well, yes: but whether the operating system that your end-user is going to play with your font the same way as your operating system plays with it is another potential pitfall. Certainly I am wondering what Windows 10 is going to do with the latest version of my Devawriter when I hive

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually I had to do that myself because the font size in a standalone was different than the font size in the IDE. Bob S On Jan 4, 2017, at 12:39 , Richard Gaskin > wrote: Matt Maier wrote: > I've got some buttons with text in

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Matt Maier wrote: > I've got some buttons with text in them. On Windows (where I develop) > they look fine. On Linux the buttons are a little bit narrower so the > text is cut off. Are the buttons narrower or is the font larger? If the latter, try setting the font size of the stack. By

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I did not know that! Very cool. Bob S > On Jan 4, 2017, at 13:28 , J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 1/4/17 1:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I was under a vague impression that you could bundle font files with >> the app (of course there may be licensing issues etc so this

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/17 1:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I was under a vague impression that you could bundle font files with the app (of course there may be licensing issues etc so this may not be viable in every case). The trick at that point would be installing the fonts. You can ship the app with a font

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/04/2017 01:05 PM, Matt Maier wrote: I've got some buttons with text in them. On Windows (where I develop) they look fine. On Linux the buttons are a little bit narrower so the text is cut off. Anyone handled a similar problem? Matt, I would suggest dynamically setting the width of

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was under a vague impression that you could bundle font files with the app (of course there may be licensing issues etc so this may not be viable in every case). The trick at that point would be installing the fonts. On linux and mac, I think this can be done via command line. Not sure about

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes; many, many times: this is even, potentially a problem on a single platform as you have no idea as to what fonts someone has installed in their system. I gave up using real buttons about 12 years ago just because I was deploying stuff across Windows, Macintosh and Linux. What I do,