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pierscintilla
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Fonts problem
« Thread started on: Mar 6th, 2013, 2:00pm » |
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Greetings.
Fantastic work!
I have a small problem: a not perfect control of the fonts type of the GUI.
the instruction of my code (print # main, "font Arial 6 17") is not exactly translated and the fonts of the GUI results too large. It's normal?
Thanks in advance
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Richard Russell
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Re: Fonts problem
« Reply #1 on: Mar 6th, 2013, 9:30pm » |
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on Mar 6th, 2013, 2:00pm, pierscintilla wrote:the instruction of my code (print # main, "font Arial 6 17") is not exactly translated and the fonts of the GUI results too large. It's normal?
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Yes, unfortunately LBB cannot set the width and height of the font independently. When you specify "font Arial 6 17" the width value 6 will be ignored by LBB and only the height value 17 will be used to control the character size.
You may find you can achieve a closer approximation to the required font by selecting "font Arial_Narrow 6 21".
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Re: Fonts problem
« Reply #2 on: Mar 7th, 2013, 1:44pm » |
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Ok, small problem remaining:
increasing the character height alignment in the text boxes moves downward (the lower part of the character disappears) evidently because there is a minimum margin with respect to the upper edge that wants to keep.
Anyway many thanks
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Re: Fonts problem
« Reply #3 on: Mar 7th, 2013, 1:57pm » |
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on Mar 7th, 2013, 1:44pm, pierscintilla wrote:Ok, small problem remaining:
increasing the character height alignment in the text boxes moves downward |
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This is happening within Windows so is out of my control. As I expect you know, LBB's text and graphics are created using a simple wrapper around the Windows API, so whatever Windows does LBB does. This is one reason why LBB creates such small executables.
I have no idea how LB4 does it. Maybe it renders text and graphics using its own code rather than Windows.
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Re: Fonts problem
« Reply #4 on: Mar 7th, 2013, 3:26pm » |
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may be.
Thanks
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