Re: where's "System Font Text" in Xcode3?

FROM : Jonathan Hess
DATE : Fri Jan 18 20:47:37 2008

On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:26 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:

>
> Le 18 janv. 08 à 14:12, Kyle Sluder a écrit :
>

>> On Jan 18, 2008 7:16 AM, Johan Kool <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>> In Interface Builder you could set the font to be "System Font" or
>>> "Small System Font" etc. That seems to be gone in IB now. I suspect
>>> that this is what is being asked about. One can just use "Lucida
>>> Grande", but that is of course not guaranteed to always remain the
>>> system font.

>>
>> Psst... "System Font Text" was just an NSTextField with Lucida Grande
>> 13.  ;-)  There's no mapping of pseudo font names to actual font 
>> names
>> like there in in GTK/HTML/Win32.
>>
>> Apple can't just change the default system font and force 
>> applications
>> to cope.  Localization is often dependent upon string length, which 
>> of
>> course is dependent upon the font in use.
>>
>> --Kyle Sluder

>
> There is no pseudo font name except for the system font as the 
> NSFont class has a +systemFont method that return the default font.
> Apple can change the system font by changing the value returned by 
> this method. (so all applications that do not explicitly use a 
> custom font will use the new font).


Hey Guys -

I just thought I would clear this up. All NIB file's have fonts 
encoded in them, including the ones generated by IB 2.x. The behavior 
of the font panel in IB 2.x was just a shortcut for choosing the 
system fonts.

Good Luck -
Jon Hess

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