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Charlie,
Maybe I'm barking up
the wrong tree, but I think I recall that at least in older versions of VW there
was some code that prevented Labels being bolded in the UI on Windows only. I
forget how this was done, but if you're talking specifically about Labels,
rather than text used in other places (list views, text views etc.), that might
be related.
To prevent bolding
with the CharacterAttributes you give, you could try building a subclass of
FontDescription (or whichever class actually handles bolding) that ignores
bolding, and use that just for this font. Another way that comes to my
hacker's mind is to copy arial.ttf over arialbd.ttf (obviously only sensible on
single-purpose workstations, which may or may not fit with Adventa's deployment
environments, and indeed may or may not work :->).
HTH,
Steve
I'm in trouble. I did something in VW 2.5 to
install as the default font an Arial font of size 12. I built up the
FontDescription and TextAttributes myself, but something in these definitions
was not right. It did not bold the text when required. In fact, it had no
bolding capability at all. I have to reproduce this "feature"
in VW 7.1 and I do not know how. I don't know what I did to create this
aberrant font and I don't know how to recreate it now.
This is what I did in VW 2.5:
| charAtt vsta |
charAtt := VariableCharacterAttributes
newWithDefaultAttributes.
charAtt setDefaultQuery: (FontDescription
new family: (Array with: 'Arial' with: '*');
manufacturer: #('adobe' '*');
fixedWidth: false;
serif: false;
italic:
false;
boldness:
0.5;
pixelSize: 12).
vsta :=
VariableSizeTextAttributes new.
vsta setCharacterAttributes:
charAtt.
vsta install.
vsta scalingFactor: 1.
vsta
gridForFont: nil withTopLead: 0 bottomLead: 0.
vsta
updateLineGridding.
VariableSizeTextAttributes styleNamed: #default
put: vsta.
In VW 2.5, this produces a font without any
bolding ability. If you look at the masks in the FontDescription, it
certainly seems to support boldness. Maybe that is not
meaningful.
I can run this same code in VW 7.1 and it seems
as though the font is fully capable of bolding when necessary.
I guess I do not understand the relationship of
FontDescription, (VariableSized)TextAttributes, (Variable)CharacterAttributes
and whatever else is in play here.
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