New to the Revolution, excited but confused about cross-platform UIinsanity! Rev poets, come to my aid, please.

[Ken Ray]

Chris,

Welcome aboard! 

Which font is this using, and is this in an English OS (it looks like it
is, but I want to be sure). At the outset it looks like a font-related
issue... if you change the font to something "generic" like "Arial", do
you still have the same issue? And it doesn't look like you have a menu
bar in play, right?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Mitchell
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:27 PM
> To: 'How to use Revolution'
> Subject: New to the Revolution, excited but confused about 
> cross-platform UIinsanity! Rev poets, come to my aid, please.
> 
> 
> Hey, folks,
> 
> I've just registered a Studio license this week and have been tooling 
> around with this fabulous software, but I'm having some 
> "concerns" when 
> it comes to how very simple Win32 windows are being represented in 
> contrast to the Mac windows.
> 
> Now, I'm aware of the 21 pixel issue if there is a menu in 
> play (which 
> I guess is always) but please take a look at these small shots:
> 
> http://www.luminus.com/runrev/
> 
> The filenames are self-explanatory.  I built the Windows standalone 
> based on the Mac stack as you see it.  I did some adjusting and was 
> messing around with property profiles to try to get a Mac and 
> a Windows 
> setup where there was enough space and proper alignment, but there 
> seems to be more to it than just that.
> 
> Note where the glyph in the Windows shot is being cutoff.  If 
> I turn a 
> grid plugin on in the editor on the mac, it shows that I have 
> a little 
> over 30 (THIRTY) pixels space between the top of the glyph 
> and the top 
> edge of the stack window.  As you can see, it is about equidistant to 
> the little control bundle at the bottom.  No matter how you slice it, 
> taking into account the menu area at the top (which is still 
> narrower, 
> as I understand, than what is shown) the Windows stack has 
> WAY too much 
> space between the glyph and the controls.  Trying to get them 
> to be in 
> the right place required almost placing the glyph field right 
> on top of 
> the controls.
> 
> What's up with this?  I knew there were some problems, but this is 
> enough to require having to go back and redo each element just so it 
> doesn't show up in a funky place - time consuming and contra 
> the write 
> once run anywhere purpose of having a multi-environment 
> builder.  Oddly 
> enough it looks like the controls are in the right place, but this 
> field is just out in space once it moves over to Windows.
> 
> Any hints/help on this?  I'm thinking of getting an Express 
> license to 
> clean up the UI on Windows but that just seems like  - well - 
> something 
> that I shouldn't have to do unless there's something hardcore 
> going on 
> - and this is just a single text field (and for the record is not a 
> unicode font, so there's none of that issue coming up  - yet...)
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Yours,
> Chris
> 
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