IDE Editor Font in GNOME

[dcpbarrington]

Forum,

I've installed LiveCode V5.5.5 and V6.1.0 on CentOS V6.4 Linux with GNOME.

After I got the right 32bit video driver it now seams to be working very well except for when I go into the Script Editor. The font is unusable.
Occurs in both version of IDE.

When using the Script Editor the spacing of the fonts are off. I've attached several screen shots.
You can move through to the end of the line, but there are still 4 more characters left. See cursor in get initializeFields( ) image. The location of the cursor is the end of the line, but it is not (see 3rd image)
Also parentheses are not visible, I've attached an image that show the jumbled characters in line put tableExists("GroupMain" ) (see 2nd image)
BUT when you comment out the line it turns to green and then all the characters are visible as shown in the line. (see 1st image)

I've followed the instructions in this detailed post, without any luck.
http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php? ... ont#p73149
> Changed the application font to DejaVu Sans Book
> Set the font to Subpixel Smoothing and Hinting FULL
> Changed the theme multiple times
> Removed the LiveCode preference file.

Any Ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks for the help.

[dcpbarrington]

Additional NOTE:

This issue was reproduced by LiveCode Support and a Bug Report # 11070 has been created on this issue.

[FourthWorld]

Thanks for filing the report.

[richmond62]

That looks like a really horrible bitmapped font from about 1993.

I wonder if you change the IDE font to a TTF font if things might not sort themselves out???

[richmond62]

Set your Script Editor font in the preferences

[MaxV]

I solved this way:

• maximized code editor
• closed code editor
• set font to Free Sans
• reopened code editor

[richmond62]

That seems a longwinded way of doing things.

[dcpbarrington]

Update, In changing the font used by the Editor, I was able to get it functional.

The only Font that worked was called "FIXED" Everything else showed the font, but the input cursor was not in the proper location.

The list of Fonts supported by LiveCode, was only a subset of the ones intalled on the CentOS 6.4 server.

The CURSOR still disappears, but the font is more usable. Hope this helps someone.

[dcpbarrington]

Update: installed gtk2-2.18.9-12.el6.i686 library to get cursor to be displayed in IDE and applications.

[richmond62]

"Update: installed gtk2-2.18.9-12.el6.i686 library to get cursor to be displayed in IDE and applications."

In the PDF file that accompanies the most recent downloads there is this:

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I think that in the light of recent experience 'optional' should be removed.

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