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

[Christopher Mitchell]

Here are the results of a test with Arial.  Notice, oddly, that 
changing the field font to Arial also had a corresponding change to the 
font used in the control group...

http://www.luminus.com/runrev/arialwin.jpg
http://www.luminus.com/runrev/arialmac.jpg

Not as bad as with the Hebraica font but still the space under the 
letter "a" on the windows build is far too wide.  I'm going to have to 
suggest this ought be looked at.

Any ideas?

Yours,
Chris
On Feb 6, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> 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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