Since I develop my applications for windows, I would like a native Windows Font Dialog Box to be available for my apps.
And also for fields I would like to see on mouse click right, a Windows edit menu. Undo/Redo, cut, copy, paste, etc.
I scripted one myself using pop-stack. What a pain in the butt it was. I lot of scripting for something that seems so simple.
Tony
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Ah, but there is the crux: you are asking for a Windows-specific feature and Revolution aims to be cross-platform without the worries if feature X will work on another platform or not.
Granted, there are a few exceptions, such as the Windows-specific 'registry' command and functions - but overall the goal is to find the common ground between platforms.
In this particular case, Windows has a standard 'font' dialog box and MacOSX has one as well, but they may not share the same features. If there is such a standard dialog box on Linux, it may be GNOME-specific and they need to compensate for it not being there under KDE or an older GNOME version.
And then there's the fact that Revolution's cross-platform text engine may not support all the styles and options that are available in these dialogs. Which would in turn baffle the user if what he selects is not reflected on-screen.
But there's nothing stopping you from writing an external in C/C++ (or commissioning one) - and you may earn some extra cash by offering it to the rest of the developer community if they need such an animal.
Just my two cents,
Jan Schenkel.
Granted, there are a few exceptions, such as the Windows-specific 'registry' command and functions - but overall the goal is to find the common ground between platforms.
In this particular case, Windows has a standard 'font' dialog box and MacOSX has one as well, but they may not share the same features. If there is such a standard dialog box on Linux, it may be GNOME-specific and they need to compensate for it not being there under KDE or an older GNOME version.
And then there's the fact that Revolution's cross-platform text engine may not support all the styles and options that are available in these dialogs. Which would in turn baffle the user if what he selects is not reflected on-screen.
But there's nothing stopping you from writing an external in C/C++ (or commissioning one) - and you may earn some extra cash by offering it to the rest of the developer community if they need such an animal.
Just my two cents,
Jan Schenkel.
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look in Revonline I know someone has made a pretty good Font Dialog box.
TonyL wrote:Since I develop my applications for windows, I would like a native Windows Font Dialog Box to be available for my apps.
And also for fields I would like to see on mouse click right, a Windows edit menu. Undo/Redo, cut, copy, paste, etc.
I scripted one myself using pop-stack. What a pain in the butt it was. I lot of scripting for something that seems so simple.
Tony