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Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?
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Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?

  • Subject: Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:51:44 +0100
At 15:35 Uhr +0100 20.12.2004, Stephan Burlot wrote:
I've carefully designed my windows in IB, and a user complains that the text displayed doesn't fit. It appears he has changed the default fonts used by the system.

Depends on what they actually changed. If they changed the systemFontOfSize:, that's not supported by the OS, so it would be nonsense to make your app cope with that (after all, if he picked Times 24 white and complained that it's always cut off and barely visible on striped grey backgrounds, there'd be no way for you to make that look decent without looking like crap on all un-hacked setups).

OTOH, if you're using another standard font that the OS lets you customize (or the Finder font, or whatever), then it's a supported thing, and your app should account for this possibility. Same if the user just turned on anti-aliasing or whatever and that somehow made the font a pixel wider than you originally expected.

So, if it's the former, tell them it's their fault, and it's not your problem to fix. If it's the latter, you better quickly fix your app before others discover the problem, too, and decide your app is probably buggy in more important places, too, and decide not to buy it.
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M. Uli Kusterer
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