Problems loading old projects

> Hi, Karl,
>
> Hmm...  this was an issue that we *thought* we had completely dealt
> with two years ago.
>
> It would be helpful to know whether, when you are loading the old
> project, you do or do not see a jumpy little yellow message box which
> says "Fixing fonts".  That message indicates that the exact problem
> you describe is (theoretically) being dealt with, viz., that all the
> Scriptors in the project are undergoing fresh layout after a font
> change forced by the fact that fonts expected by the project are not
> present in the image.
>
> Perhaps you could email me a copy of such a project (with instructions
> on how you worked around the encoding issue, if applicable) so that we
> could experience the problem first-hand.  Perhaps the problematical
> projects are *very* old?  In any case, it would be useful to help
> track down how our font-fixup attempts are failing.
>
> Anyway, as a practical matter, I think that if you've loaded a project
> and find that the scriptor layouts are screwed up, evaluating the
> following in a Workspace will probably make them all come right...
> it's worth a try anyway:
>
> (ScriptEditorMorph allInstances select: [:m | m == m topEditor]) do:
> [:m | m fixLayout].
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>  -- Scott
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Karl wrote:
>
>> I have run across a few issues loading some old projects. The project
>> loading had problems with the encoding, that was quite easy to fix. But
>> and other issue is that the font's in the image have changed since the
>> project were made. Upon loading the font's are replaced by the images
>> default eToy font and that screws up the layout of all scripts. Is there
>> a way to relayout all the scripts or
>> do I have to do this manually by making new scripts ?
>> Karl
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