I refer to the property inspector and the different 'panes' available in it for text manipulation i.e. the content 'pane' and the text/formatting 'pane' versus formatting text via the text menu directly into a field versus formatting text in the content 'pane' using the text menu.
If you set the font and font style for a field on the mac and build a standalone then open it in Windows, depending on which method used it will default to another font and sometimes lose it's formatting. If you set the style in other ways it will work. I created a stack to show this effect if you prefer to inspect the problem with REV's text formatting issues.
And the cross platform issue is not how each platform deals with text but rather how REV defaults text formatting to Lucida Grande even though it was SET to Arial 18 etc. in the stack on Mac. This is a REV issue and not just a cross-platform issue. I can tell you this, it does not happen in Director across platforms. In Director if I set a font and include it then it shows up on the Windows side just fine (If it is a cross platform font).
Secondly this problem also happens when building a standalone for use in OSX from a stack created in OSX.
These problems are in the IDE and a problem in the interface and it's method of applying text styles to a field.
I didn't have these problems when using SuperCard Mac and SuperCard on the Web - or for that matter in the short lived SuperCard Windows version so I know this is not an OS issue.
SO it is frustrating to not have the built-in text formatting within REV act in an appropriate and expected manor. I think you misunderstand what I am referring to and why. I am not getting down on REV but pointing out an issue that would not be acceptable in any other commercial application.
Tom P.S. I paid $1,000.00 for REV and not $99.00
On Nov 26, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
The inconsistency I refer to is the problems with text formatted in a
field versus that done in the content pane and versus that done in the
text formatting pane. They all have different results and are
unpredictable at best. Then if I send it to Windows it gets even worse.
It is just frustrating to have them all act differently that's all.
Differences across platforms? Sounds like just another day in multimedia
and Web design. :) Yes, it is frustrating, the subject of thousands of Web
sites.
I'm definitely coming in late on this thread. There's only one engine which
handles all object rendering -- what are these "panes"?
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