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Re: Win32Lib v0.60

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 30, 2004
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Derek,
> 
> I must say, I'm not a fan of the new default font scheme.  It was a bit 
> of a surprise that the fonts in my Win32Lib apps were suddenly different.
> Is there any way to turn this off unless asked for?  I understand that 
> whatever the default is may not be pretty, but it's good to have a Eu
> app look like other apps IMHO.
> 
> Also, the environment variable thingy doesn't seem to work.  Using the
> format specified in the Docs:
> 
> w32Defaults=Font:{Comic Sans MS,12,3} 
> 
> doesn't work.  Your parsing routines don't separate the arguments 
> correctly.  If I remove the {} then it splits things, and recognizes 
> the face name, but not anything else.
> 
> The docs say that the Defaults system is an application specific way
> to change things.  I didn't see anything specific, other than to use
> the OS SET command, which doesn't seem to work from within Eu.  There
> don't seem to be any demos using this feature.  Could you please elaborate
> on how this is supposed to work?
>
> It seems that calling setDefaultFont() on a created window returns things 
> to normal, but this seems like an awful (and needless) workaround.

There are two mistakes I made here. The first is that the documentation
is wrong about the w32Defaults setting. Instead of '{}' braces it should
have '()' parenthesis. The second is that I left my 'test' font hardcoded
as the default font. Find the line ...

    FontDefaults    = { "verdana", 8, 0, Black }

and change it to ...

    FontDefaults    = { "ms sans serif", 8, 0, Black }

This should restore its behaviour to pre v0.60.

Sorry about the stuff up.
-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia