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Back to article list Search Articles Add Comment Printer friendly Direct link ABC: Edit in place font issues 2006-01-18 -- Arnor Baldvinsson When you use Edit-in-place in ABC the font used in the entry control is inherited from the window, not
the listbox. This can cause nasty visual effects if these fonts are drastically different. I have
reported this problem to Softvelocity and it is reported under review. In the mean time I have tried to
work around the problem.
In my first report, I set the font to be whatever the listbox font was by editing the EditClass.INIT method in ABEIP.CLW:
EditClass.Init PROCEDURE(UNSIGNED FieldNo,UNSIGNED ListBox,*? UseVar)
CODE
SELF.ListBoxFeq = ListBox
SELF.FieldNo = FieldNo
SELF.CreateControl()
ASSERT(SELF.Feq)
!! AB 2006-01-17
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontName} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:FontName}
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontSize} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:FontSize}
SELF.FEQ {Prop:Background} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:Background}
!! AB 2006-01-17
SELF.UseVar &= UseVar
SELF.Feq{PROP:Text} = SELF.ListBoxFeq{PROPLIST:Picture,SELF.FieldNo}
SELF.Feq{PROP:Use} = UseVar
SELF.SetAlerts
This works, but causes a problem under XP if the user has the ClearType font setting turned on and the
font is a TrueType font, which do not show up correctly in Clarion entry controls. So I have improved on
this by checking if ClearType is turned on. My current implementation is as follows:
EditClass.Init PROCEDURE(UNSIGNED FieldNo,UNSIGNED ListBox,*? UseVar)
IsClearType Byte !! AB 2006-01-17
CODE
SELF.ListBoxFeq = ListBox
SELF.FieldNo = FieldNo
SELF.CreateControl()
ASSERT(SELF.Feq)
!! AB 2006-01-17
IsClearType = Choose(GetReg(REG_CURRENT_USER,|
'Control Panel\Desktop','FontSmoothing')=2,True,False)
If IsClearType
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontName} = 'MS Sans Serif'
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontSize} = 8
Else
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontName} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:FontName}
SELF.FEQ {Prop:FontSize} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:FontSize}
End
SELF.FEQ {Prop:Background} = SELF.ListBoxFeq {Prop:Background}
!! AB 2006-01-17
SELF.UseVar &= UseVar
SELF.Feq{PROP:Text} = SELF.ListBoxFeq{PROPLIST:Picture,SELF.FieldNo}
SELF.Feq{PROP:Use} = UseVar
SELF.SetAlerts
I don't like hardcoding this so I think I will probably derive my own base class for the EIP classes and
see what I can do about it. Until then, this works:)Today is October 25, 2026, 12:53 am This article has been viewed 36293 times. Google search has resulted in 16 hits on this article since January 25, 2004.
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