Two reasonable suggestions -- comments below:
On Jul 28, 2004, at 4:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cross-platform fonts...what is everyone else doing? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Stupid idea: Since Windows fonts stay assigned after you assign them on
Windows, why not just *do* that as a one-time operation when you're releasing
stuff for Windows? Yes, this does somewhat go against the "write once, run
anywhere" ideal we all strive for. But if Windows just refuses to either do the
right thing itself, or allow you to do the right thing for it...
I considered that -- but I started this thread hoping not to have to do that.
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:20:55 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cross-platform fonts...what is everyone else doing? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Another idea for how to deal with it: Why not include a function that
allows your users to select whichever font they like? You can set things up so
that the first time your app runs, it allows them to choose their own font (and
do whatever other preference-type tweaking you care to implement). After that,
everyone walks away happy, with a font that they *know* works on *their*
systerm, because they *chose* it themselves! Best of all, this solution *is*
perfectly cross-platform, just because...
You have to be careful about doing that because if they choose the wrong font, the baseline bug will not only make all your carefully aligned fields and controls misaligned, but you might get cutoff text on your carefully designed labels if the new font is wider than what you designed your screens to.
I think I will probably go with a runtime solution, such that when a stack opens for the first time it quickly checks every field for a non-empty font/size/style and resets it to the correct font for that platform. I don't have that many controls that are bolded or have a different point size, so it should be fast enough.
-- Frank
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