Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?

FROM : M. Uli Kusterer
DATE : Mon Dec 20 16:51:44 2004

At 15:35 Uhr +0100 20.12.2004, Stephan Burlot wrote:
>I've carefully designed my windows in IB, and a user complains that
>the text displayed doesn't fit. It appears he has changed the
>default fonts used by the system.


  Depends on what they actually changed. If they changed the
systemFontOfSize:, that's not supported by the OS, so it would be
nonsense to make your app cope with that (after all, if he picked
Times 24 white and complained that it's always cut off and barely
visible on striped grey backgrounds, there'd be no way for you to
make that look decent without looking like crap on all un-hacked
setups).

  OTOH, if you're using another standard font that the OS lets you
customize (or the Finder font, or whatever), then it's a supported
thing, and your app should account for this possibility. Same if the
user just turned on anti-aliasing or whatever and that somehow made
the font a pixel wider than you originally expected.

  So, if it's the former, tell them it's their fault, and it's not
your problem to fix. If it's the latter, you better quickly fix your
app before others discover the problem, too, and decide your app is
probably buggy in more important places, too, and decide not to buy
it.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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