More Crossplatform Text Agony
OK, in Rev 3.5, I create a brand new stack, let's say on OS X. I add a control, let's say a tab control, and set its text size and style. Now when I move the stack to Vista or XP, the text of the tab control takes on some default setting that I can't change. Looking in the Text menu or using the message box, the textsize/style is reported as being the same as my original styling, but the appearance of the tab control is incorrect and won't update. Using the Text menu or by script I am unable to modify the text appearance. Looking through custom properties of the stack/card with Revolution UI elements... enabled in Preferences doesn't appear to show any custom properties set for text. WTF? Even on newly created stacks with minimal text formatting, the settings don't carry over across platforms, and won't update. go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/tabtest.rev; I created a test stack with the above tab control, and a slider that changes the text size. The stack works as expected on OS X where it was created, but refuses to update here on Vista XP. Is this problem exclusive to my systems? Does anyone else ever run into these issues? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Yuck, an old chestnut. My experience, unfortunately, is that text sizes and styles just don't move properly cross-platform as they are in some way tied to the font that was chosen on the original platform. Therefore when I do stuff for a platform I either develop on that platform, or if that isn't feasible, transfer the original stack to the target platform and . . . you guessed it . . . reset all the text settings for every text box via the preferences palette, prior to compiling the standalone. Scott Rossi wrote: OK, in Rev 3.5, I create a brand new stack, let's say on OS X. I add a control, let's say a tab control, and set its text size and style. Now when I move the stack to Vista or XP, the text of the tab control takes on some default setting that I can't change. Looking in the Text menu or using the message box, the textsize/style is reported as being the same as my original styling, but the appearance of the tab control is incorrect and won't update. Using the Text menu or by script I am unable to modify the text appearance. Looking through custom properties of the stack/card with Revolution UI elements... enabled in Preferences doesn't appear to show any custom properties set for text. WTF? Even on newly created stacks with minimal text formatting, the settings don't carry over across platforms, and won't update. go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/tabtest.rev; I created a test stack with the above tab control, and a slider that changes the text size. The stack works as expected on OS X where it was created, but refuses to update here on Vista XP. Is this problem exclusive to my systems? Does anyone else ever run into these issues? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Scott Rossi wrote: OK, in Rev 3.5, I create a brand new stack, let's say on OS X. I add a control, let's say a tab control, and set its text size and style. Now when I move the stack to Vista or XP, the text of the tab control takes on some default setting that I can't change. Looking in the Text menu or using the message box, the textsize/style is reported as being the same as my original styling, but the appearance of the tab control is incorrect and won't update. Using the Text menu or by script I am unable to modify the text appearance. Looking through custom properties of the stack/card with Revolution UI elements... enabled in Preferences doesn't appear to show any custom properties set for text. WTF? Even on newly created stacks with minimal text formatting, the settings don't carry over across platforms, and won't update. I haven't looked at the stack in Windows but peeked at it in OS X. I think the problem has to do with how textfonts work. Whenever you set a textstyle and size, the textfont is also stored; Rev can't save only size and style info without also saving the font. The font that is being stored for your tab control is Lucida Grande, which doesn't exist on Windows, so something else is being substituted there. To reset it on Windows, set the textfont of the control to a Windows-native font. Since setting the font will wipe the size and style info, you'll need to reset both of those too. See if that helps. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: OK, in Rev 3.5, I create a brand new stack, let's say on OS X. I add a control, let's say a tab control, and set its text size and style. Now when I move the stack to Vista or XP, the text of the tab control takes on some default setting that I can't change. Whenever you set a textstyle and size, the textfont is also stored; Rev can't save only size and style info without also saving the font. That is indeed the issue. Guess I still have to use a routine that sets the font of the stack at startup. Thank you for pointing this out. Back to wiping the blood from my forehead. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Jacque- Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:29:15 PM, you wrote: To reset it on Windows, set the textfont of the control to a Windows-native font. Since setting the font will wipe the size and style info, you'll need to reset both of those too. See if that helps. Yep - I had a look on XP, and setting the font to something that actually exists on a Windows box gives the desired result. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:29:15 PM, you wrote: To reset it on Windows, set the textfont of the control to a Windows-native font. Since setting the font will wipe the size and style info, you'll need to reset both of those too. See if that helps. Yep - I had a look on XP, and setting the font to something that actually exists on a Windows box gives the desired result. I hope this is not going to be a problem with a stack that I develop on a Mac and upload to my website with RunRev 4 (see Webinar stuff), so that when folks try to use it on a PC running XP or Mandriva all the text shrinks to midget letters. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony
Le 23 juin 09 à 21:29, J. Landman Gay a écrit : Scott Rossi wrote: OK, in Rev 3.5, I create a brand new stack, let's say on OS X. I add a control, let's say a tab control, and set its text size and style. Now when I move the stack to Vista or XP, the text of the tab control takes on some default setting that I can't change. Looking in the Text menu or using the message box, the textsize/style is reported as being the same as my original styling, but the appearance of the tab control is incorrect and won't update. Using the Text menu or by script I am unable to modify the text appearance. Looking through custom properties of the stack/card with Revolution UI elements... enabled in Preferences doesn't appear to show any custom properties set for text. WTF? Even on newly created stacks with minimal text formatting, the settings don't carry over across platforms, and won't update. I haven't looked at the stack in Windows but peeked at it in OS X. I think the problem has to do with how textfonts work. Whenever you set a textstyle and size, the textfont is also stored; Rev can't save only size and style info without also saving the font. The font that is being stored for your tab control is Lucida Grande, which doesn't exist on Windows, so something else is being substituted there. To reset it on Windows, set the textfont of the control to a Windows- native font. Since setting the font will wipe the size and style info, you'll need to reset both of those too. See if that helps. the fonts that are common to my MacOS X Leopard system and my XP virtual machine are Arial (four variants) Comic Sans (plain and bold) Courier new (4) Georgia (4) Impact Symbol Times New Roman (4) Trebuchet (although it is called Trebuchet MS on my mac) Verdana FYI, my mac (as most of them) came with with a demo of office for mac. I snatched the fonts before wiping the demo, so I am not sure if these font come with every mac. However, these fonts are called Web safe in RapidWeaver. HTH François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
