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disappearing characters
I wrote an app on Mac OS X 5.7.5 in live code 6.5.1 and saved it for Windows. The following is only true for this Windows-Standalone, and only if used with fullscreen set to false (which I think some users will prefer):
When I write Greek forms in a field, the font of which is an ancient Greek font with flying accents, and then try to examine the entered text with return key, the flying accents (width = 0) disappear partly or all - especially if they are wrong (i.e. not matching the paradigm). For a student it is very difficult to correct a form, if he does not see the mistake.
The font is installed with the app; but putting it into the fonts-folder doesn't help.
Thanks already now for all good ideas to prevent accents from disappearing!
Gottfried

Hi Gottfried,

This might be a bug in LiveCode, but have you tried setting the fixedLineHeight of your field(s) to false?

Kind regards,

Mark

Thank you, Mark - the fixed line height is set to false.
To me too it seems a bug - but I cannot repeat it outside my stack in a simple field!
One thing I can add now: When I changed once to one of the fullscreenmodes, the bug disappeared in all variants!
Thanks for considering my problem!
Gottfried

Hi Gottfried,

Several people have reported problems related to fonts and fullscreen modes. I'm sure it is a bug. It will probably be fixed in a while.

Kind regards,

Mark

Thanks once more!
I have now found a way - a bit strange, but it works:
set the fullscreen of this stack to false
set the fullscreenmode of this stack to "letterbox"
With best regards
Gottfried


Naturally that was an error. In fact it seems I have changed at the same time to an earlier edition of livecode (6.5.1), and this was the solution.

Perhaps this fact is interesting for someone, because another (very old) stack didn't work correctly, when I changed the size of the window (in order to use it on netbooks). In this case I now tried the same way, and both problems disappear when I use lc 6.5.1.
Gottfried