Font problems in 7.0 (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 02 APR 2004 03:23:17PM John Bouley wrote:
I have an application that was recently converted to 7.0 and we noticed that the Edit Boxes would no longer allow input. Thanks to Bob Orcini we found out that the problem was related to the size of the control. Expanding it solved the problem. What is strange is that we are seeing this all over our application. In some prompts the data shows but is cut off.
I have two choices, paint every window and manually increase the size of all controls and verify the font (impractical). Or change all of the Fonts on each window to be MS Sans Serif Bold 8 (Same as 4.13).
I downloaded the Change_Window_Font Extra and ran it against the application. It looks like it reset all the fonts but changed the font to Font: blank, Style "Regular", Size blank.
Anyone else run into this problem with 7.0?
Anyone used the Change_Window_Font routine?
Thanks,
John Bouley
At 02 APR 2004 03:51PM Donald Bakke wrote:
John,
Download our Form Fixer Utility from our website. Just go to the Developer's Resources -] Downloads section. It will quickly restore all your forms.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 02 APR 2004 08:50PM Richard Bright wrote:
John,
The font changer routine did that (null font) with me too. Took a while trolling through all forms to rectify. Couldnt see any issue in the source code.
At 03 APR 2004 02:40AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Richard,
Didn't the Form Fixer resolve your control size problems?
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 04 APR 2004 07:04AM Richard Bright wrote:
Don,
Your Form_Fixer worked a treat - and thanks very much for making it available (even twice).
Following on from that, when I read about font standards on XP etc in the doc with the new utility, I decided that I should make the effort to move all display fonts to windows standard. Heck, if a utility is provided, why not give it a whorl.
I guess the sometimes it pays to test the water before plunging in!
At 06 APR 2004 09:13AM John Bouley wrote:
Don,
Thanks for the info and the utility. It works great.
One final question. After running against my development does it update the repository so that I can deploy those changes to my client or will this have to be a manual procedure.
Thanks again,
John
At 06 APR 2004 09:24AM Donald Bakke wrote:
John,
What do you mean by "update the repository"? If you mean "will it update the date stamp" then the answer is no. That doesn't mean they can't be deployed…it just means you can't use the "Entities Changed Since…" feature of the RDK. But presumably almost ALL your windows in the local app needed to be modified right?
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 06 APR 2004 10:04AM John Bouley wrote:
Correct,
I will just re-deploy all of the forms in my app.
Thanks for a great utility!
John