Charles Hartman wrote:
PROBLEM 1: On WinXP, the cursor disappears whenever I mouse onto a stack.
There's a Bugzilla report about this. It started a couple of versions ago but the team couldn't reproduce it. No one else complained, so the bug was closed. Recently another customer complained about it via tech support, so I re-opened the bug. I can't reproduce the behavior on my Windows machine either, so we don't know what causes it.
If you could add your comments to the bug report, the team might be able to track it down. I don't think it depends on the stack itself, since those people who report the problem say they have it no matter what stack is opened. But maybe you can work with the RR guys to determine if there is a system setting or something that is responsible.
The bugzilla report is here: <http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2299>
PROBLEM 2: in "answer" commands, the choices I specify are there, but they're in reversed order.
As others have mentioned, the HIG for each OS is different. So I don't think it is really a bug, since it is correct that the last button you list (the default button) should be on the left on a Windows box. If you do decide to write platform-specific code, be ready for one side or the other to notice. Windows users think the Mac order is backwards.
PROBLEM 3: One interactive tutorial works like this: In Courier (for the sake of monospaced alignment between lines) there's a line of text, with a line of marks over it. The marks, in various combinations at various times, are covered up by opaque, borderless fields, which are hidden (revealing the mark below) in response to mouse-clicks. But on WinXP, though the font is the same (Courier New), the size is different! So the mark-hiding fields don't cover their marks.
Right, you are up against one of the most common cross platform issues. Fonts of the same name and size are not identical on different operating systems. One way to manage this is to find (usually by trial and error) a size on one machine that matches a different size on another. (Dar has done some experiments with this.) Mac fonts are often wider, so for example, if your Mac is using Courier 12, you might find a match on Windows by using Courier 10 or 11. You might have to juggle textheights the same way. Once you get the right sizes, you can run a quick preopencard handler that sets each field's textsize and/or textheight to whatever it needs.
One other thing you could do, if there is enough room, is just make your cover fields large enough for the worst-case font size.
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