VW7.7 deployed on XP
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We have just moved our application from VW7.6 to VW7.7 and the
good news is it works well… on Windows 7. However if an executable build
on Windows 7 is deployed to a Windows XP machine all the text in the UI is rendered
using Dingbats or some similar symbol font. Made for quite an amusing bug
report really. Has anyone else come across this? -----
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We don’t see this kind of problem
on XP. Does a virgin visual.im look right on your XP machines? If so,
presumably you have some changes to the fonts used by VW. If not, maybe you
have a font installed on those machines that is at least as good a match to the
system fonts’ FontDescriptions. Steve From:
[hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Joerg
Beekmann, DeepCove Labs (YVR) We have just moved our application from VW7.6 to VW7.7 and
the good news is it works well… on Windows 7. However if an executable
build on Windows 7 is deployed to a Windows XP machine all the text in the UI
is rendered using Dingbats or some similar symbol font. Made for quite an
amusing bug report really. Has anyone else come across this? -----
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Steven, Yea, I actually found the offending
call site this morning, (Screen default
defaultFontPolicy availableFonts select: [:ea | 'wingding*' match: ea family])
do: [:ea | ea encoding: 'ms_cp_1252'] I'm not sure why it has such a
profound effect, but given that we no longer need this hack for other reasons,
I'm just as happy to remove it w/o looking any further :) Regards, -Boris -- DeepCove Labs Ltd. +1 (604) 689-0322 4th floor, 595 Howe Street Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6C 2T5 http://tinyurl.com/r7uw4 PacNet Services (Europe) Ltd. +353 (0)61 714-360 Shannon Airport House, SFZ County Clare, Ireland http://tinyurl.com/y952amr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email is intended only for
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Steven Kelly We don’t see this
kind of problem on XP. Does a virgin visual.im look right on your XP machines?
If so, presumably you have some changes to the fonts used by VW. If not, maybe
you have a font installed on those machines that is at least as good a match to
the system fonts’ FontDescriptions. Steve From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Joerg Beekmann, DeepCove
Labs (YVR) We have just moved our application from
VW7.6 to VW7.7 and the good news is it works well… on Windows 7. However
if an executable build on Windows 7 is deployed to a Windows XP machine all the
text in the UI is rendered using Dingbats or some similar symbol font. Made for
quite an amusing bug report really. Has anyone else come across this? -----
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Am 30.04.2010 11:25, schrieb Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (YVR):
> Steven, > > Yea, I actually found the offending call site this morning, > > /(Screen default defaultFontPolicy availableFonts select: [:ea | > 'wingding*' match: ea family]) do: [:ea | ea encoding: 'ms_cp_1252']/ > > I'm not sure why it has such a profound effect, but given that we no > longer need this hack for other reasons, I'm just as happy to remove it > w/o looking any further :) the default stream encoder has changed: 7.6 / Windows: iso8859-1 7.7 / Windows: mscp1252 so I guess the patched Wingdings font description suddenly became very attractive, since the default stream encoding is used in VariableCharacterAttributes>>updatedQueryFor:. We had to patch this method and some other places though, to be able to use the Symbol font again. _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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Ah, okay, that could very well be it, thanks.
-Boris -- DeepCove Labs Ltd. +1 (604) 689-0322 4th floor, 595 Howe Street Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6C 2T5 http://tinyurl.com/r7uw4 PacNet Services (Europe) Ltd. +353 (0)61 714-360 Shannon Airport House, SFZ County Clare, Ireland http://tinyurl.com/y952amr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email is intended only for the persons named in the message header. Unless otherwise indicated, it contains information that is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete the entire message including any attachments. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Holger Kleinsorgen Sent: 30 April 2010 11:24 To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [vwnc] VW7.7 deployed on XP Am 30.04.2010 11:25, schrieb Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (YVR): > Steven, > > Yea, I actually found the offending call site this morning, > > /(Screen default defaultFontPolicy availableFonts select: [:ea | > 'wingding*' match: ea family]) do: [:ea | ea encoding: 'ms_cp_1252']/ > > I'm not sure why it has such a profound effect, but given that we no > longer need this hack for other reasons, I'm just as happy to remove it > w/o looking any further :) the default stream encoder has changed: 7.6 / Windows: iso8859-1 7.7 / Windows: mscp1252 so I guess the patched Wingdings font description suddenly became very attractive, since the default stream encoding is used in VariableCharacterAttributes>>updatedQueryFor:. We had to patch this method and some other places though, to be able to use the Symbol font again. _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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