Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?
Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?
- Subject: Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?
- From: Stephan Burlot <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:23:19 +0100
No, the "User" just changed the system fonts (with TinkerTool, I
suppose) but didnt change the point size. The line height changed, so
text did overflow.
Is there a standard program/Prefs Item, given with MacOSX, allows the
user to change the font used of windows?
Thanks,
Stephan
Le 20 déc. 04, à 16:51, M. Uli Kusterer a écrit :
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.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden