Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2022, at 19:51 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> The team worked hard in v9 to deliver font management in a way that
>> makes it easier than ever to deliver apps that meet user expectations
>> and OS design specs on the platforms deployed to. Mac looks like
>> Mac, Win looks like Win, all with one font setting.
>>...
>> So help me understand: what are you working on where a user expects
>> fine-grained font rendering consistency on multiple OSes? What do
>> these apps do?
>>
>> Do your users switch OSes during a session, or work on Windows by day
>> and Mac at night? How many also use Linux in that multi-OS workflow?
>
>
> For me it's simple. I want the same baseline and alignment on two
> platforms I work with, MacOS and Windows, when using an embedded font.
> ...I just want a label that has the width and height auto fitted on a
> Mac to not be cut off on Windows.
Thanks. I can see that, esp. since the HIGs for Mac and Win specify
different font sizes.
I've been including a little extra space to allow for that, and with
alignment set well (left-aligned for full-row headers, right-aligned per
HIG for form field labels) it's been working well enough.
But this suggestion may help with some layouts:
> Perhaps what would be useful is if there was an Autofit property for
> fields that would adjust the width and height of a field, instead of
> having to manually do it. Otherwise I can do it programmatically.
It would be more convenient to have a property to set the width to the
formattedWidth, but it raises another question: what do you do with the
space saved?
That is, if the layout it too tight to allow some extra space in a label
field to accommodate the different HIG specs for each platform, when a
field is automatically readjusted as proposed then wouldn't you also
need to adjust surrounding controls to take advantage of the change?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
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