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At 02 JUL 1998 03:37:48PM Dave Pociu wrote:

The table builder font on my development computer just decided to change to Algerian (or something similar) font - which is VERY HARD TO READ. I tried quite a few things ( including calling tech support ;)) but so far no luck changing it back to a regular MS Sans Serif or Courier.

Does anybody know where the setting for the table builder font resides, and how to change it?

TIA

Dave

P.S. The problem is only with the edit tables on the first screen of table builder. If I double-click on a row and the detail window opens up, that window looks OK.

At 02 JUL 1998 05:31PM Chris Callahan wrote:

I had the same thing for a while, but it went away again - not sure how. Curious!

Chris VSL

At 03 JUL 1998 08:06AM Jeff Word wrote:

I have had the same thing for 6 months. Tech support looked into it and did not come up with anything. I kind of gave up but it someone knows the answer it sure would be helpful! I will watch this thread.

At 03 JUL 1998 10:26AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:

I've seen this happen in two ways. One has something to do with internal font numbers and how things are arranged internally with windows. The font in the table builder is(was?) hard coded with a specific font pointer, and as you increased the number of fonts to a specific point, the numbers switched and you received a different font.

The second is that the font itself doesn't exist. Had something on my workstation just the other day where in design mode, the edittable displayed the symbol font instead of Arial as defined. Turns out I did not have an Arial true type, but an Arial printer font. The font displayed properly when the form was run.

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

At 03 JUL 1998 10:42AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Aaron/Dave

The second is that the font itself doesn't exist

That was my first thought. I got the wrong font once (in a different program) because the font I referred to wasn't there (well in my case the font was right but the name I used was wrong, but the result would probably be the same). And the font I got seemed to be the first font available. If Dave gets "Algerian" that might be his first font alphabetically and therefore selected by the system. Is that a clue?

But if he does get the same font (the correct one I mean) in other places it cannot be as simple as that. On the other side I think some programs are more clever than others to find a good substitution if a font is missing. If he does get the font he wants in other places perhaps it's a good substitute he sees.

- O -

At 06 JUL 1998 07:49AM Cameron Revelation wrote:

Dave,

Try this:

SYSOBJ/$MOD_TMU

0004000100930083010000E98001D007

E924471A00800929B8E91D01008C0000

0000000018800F4052483100802E29B8

8001EAD9473C00804729B8EBEA8BD741

64D7E303484E00EAD6805F29B8EB6F8A

2051485A005C4A7700EB6F6351486A00

EAD6807B29B84A770064487700EAD680

9E29B84A7700EB631507EBEA8BD741D8

E303488C00EAD680BE29B8EAD680D829

B87407544D552E657865244D69737369

6E6720544D552E455845206F7220696E

2075736520656C736577686572652118

556E657870656374656420544D552E45

58452073697A652117556E61626C6520

746F206F70656E20544D552E45584521

1B4572726F722072656164696E672066

726F6D20544D552E4558452122544D55

2E4558452068617320616C7265616479

206265656E206D6F646966696564211F

556E657870656374656420636F6E7465

6E747320696E20544D552E4558452119

4572726F722077726974696E6720746F

20544D552E4558452119544D552E4558

4520686173206265656E207570646174

65642E02010101010000180053595350

524F47FE31313134352E333239343739

313636370400766F6964

From the command line: run mod_tmu

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software