MC and UB

[Tariel Gogoberidze]

On Aug 22, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Klaus Major wrote:


> Since the ONLY new thing in the IDE will be support for UB on OS X,


Any chance  to add small cosmetic change we discussed before?.

> On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:

> Speaking about sizes, I'm always changing the fonts and button sizes 
> in  new MC IDE builds to accommodate to OS standards.
>
>  For OS 9 the standard font  is Geneva 10 and button size is w= 95 and 
> h= 22
>  For OS X the standard font is Lucida Grande 11 and button size is w = 
> 82 and h= 23
>  For Win the standard font is Tahoma 11, don't remember standard 
> button sizes
>
> So, may be it makes sense to put a small handler in PreOpenStack  of  
> "mctools.mc" and "mchelp.mc" that would set the textfont and textsize 
> of this stacks according to OS standards?
>
> This way substacks   like "properties" or "control browser" would 
> inherit TextFont and TextSise of the main stack and would look much 
> better on all platforms.
>
> Concerning default object sizes (when you create a new object) Rev has 
> it done very nicely in "Preferences / Object sizes"
> May be Klaus would consider to add such tab to MC IDE preferences 
> stack and make it OPTIONAL ?
>
> That's one of few features I personally like in Rev ID and I'm 
> imitating it by setting default sizes in  "on NewButton", "On 
> NewField" etc in script of stack Home.

note: this way  we still create objects by dragging them on the card, 
but after dragging,  the size would "self adjust" to default size. As 
for copy / paste the " on NewButton"  / "On NewField"  scripts would 
"pass" in this case to preserve the size of copy / pasted object

>
> Also,   just to remind so this would not be lost in transition period 
> :) ...  RC1 has libURL vs  1.1.4 and Dave Gragg posted vs 1.1.6 at

I sort of remember Klaus agreed to at least part of this proposal 
concerning platform dependent default fonts and font sizes.



> Short question:

> is it OK to deliver/save it in 2.7 stack format???
> It needs the 2.7x engine for UBs anyway!

> OK, OK, OK, poll finished, will deliver in "legacy" stack format :-)

Good :)

best regards
Tariel