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Hi guys, any updates to this with the "open printing to PDF" variation? That one seems to be supported in mobile as stated in the dictionary where the other 2 older commands are desktop only.

The LC Dictionary also available in a regular browser: https://livecode.com/resources/api/ That's a very lovely resource. Is there any way to know which LC version is that dictionary targeted from, I assume latest LC 10 DP? Anyhow I prefer to use Milby's online dictionary. https://milby.us/lc/docs/...

Thanks very much for providing the files. It has allowed me to notice some issues. Indeed the Windows compiled executable from Mac is the same as if it were made from Windows. That's great, LC does really guarantee consistency across platform. The font is very symmetric and well spaced for Mac. The ...

Sure, no problem. Also if you want to see how badly my issue is, check the last attachment in the bug link I posted. I can't upload it, as 300kb video file is too big. The pixel drawing is so irregular, than when simply moving controls around, the fontspacing changes, thus the characters seems to be...

Thanks. Let's try the basic fonts that come with the OS, Segoe UI, Consolas, and Arial. They are all problematic, anyway.

The clearType was set to true by default. Good suggestion but unfortunately doesn't work. LiveCode does indeed draw smooth fonts. But the problem is the spacing between characters which seems to be something not related to the font drawing engine, but instead something related to how LC draws the pi...

Tnx for the suggestion. I tried setting it to both false and true, but no success. I've tried different fonts, system ones, and they look great in other applications but not in LiveCode. I suppose the font rendering is better on Apple devices?

I am using Segoe UI which is Microsoft's one. However I'm trying with many fonts and I can see the spacing varies according to the font type and size. Also moving the field around makes the character spacing vary. So this is issue seems to be not font dependant. On what OS are you testing? could be ...

Valid question but no, I'm not asking about monospaced fonts. I shouldn't have picked the notepad & Sublime as those have monospaced fonts. You can also compare in any word editor, i.e microsoft word, with any regular font. Comparing the same font type in LiveCode and the word editor at the same fon...

Hi all, I noticed that the font spacing for many characters is not right. Some letters are more noticeable than others. The f, i & s are the worst. I would like to confirm if this is a bug or is something related to my hardware on Windows 10. On the attached image, LiveCode 9.6.6 on the left, and fo...

Or is there another way of "using" such fonts? Any insights welcome! Yes, there's a workaround. Use a tool to edit the Metadata of the font files you want and change the name to something that suits your needs. Then Compile the font and it is ready to be used, realiably and cross platform. For inst...

I quickly checked, and can confirm that all properties, at least in bold headers, mentioned in that release are documented in the dictionary entry for field object as suggested by Klaus. Some Unicode functions are now deprecated as LC became native Unicode UTF-16 in I think version 6, which means ne...

Hi Bernd, I find that stack very interesting. Even more impressive is that so many properties have been available for a long time and I just discovered they exists LOL. The text field is really rich and has so many attributes ;), which now make me reconsider when to use a Datagrid vs when to use fie...

Alright, field's properties it is! I'm terrible at defining basic concepts even though I use them all the time . and the foregroundColor of a button is the text color of its entire label.

is that chunks, possibly a new idea for Monox18 In a sense yes. I have always used chunks. In loops, accessing the last char, the first char, deleting line x of, etc. I thought chunks were mere LC syntax for specific functions/commands/properties. What it's new to me is that many field's functions ...