OK, two questions, and the last one doesn't read that simply.
Dialog Designer Fonts
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Dialog Designer Fonts
Hopefully, this is a simple question. How does one modify the fonts within the Dialog Designer? And, if I have already created a dialog and modified the fonts by assigning Fonts=Face,Size in the description, how does one 'scale' to the new font if you try to reopen the dialog in the Designer?
OK, two questions, and the last one doesn't read that simply.
OK, two questions, and the last one doesn't read that simply.
Excellent questions.
The dialog designer is a great tool but to my knowledge does not accommodate font selection. It currently requires a lot of trial and error moving things around to make the resized text fit properly and aesthetically into a dialog.
I don't have it yet but I have started working on a tool to let you do that very thing. It will take your dialog block code, and display a dialog that will let you resize and move buttons that pretend to be existing text objects. You can move and resize them so that their start locations will be correct for when you resize your text objects. When you close it the locations and object definitions will be merged and written to the clipboard so you can paste it over your old dialog block.
I started this a couple of months ago after creating a barcode label with about 30 elements that had to fit on a 4" x 6" label. I have not come close to finishing it but was informed this week that another barcode label needs to be done. So I now have incentive.
Also If you are using Font= in the dialog, you only have one font size to contend with. Now that you have version 11, look up help for SetDialogObjectFont>. This function will allow you to set the font (and color) for each individual dialog object. You can have a plethora of different sizes to contend with.
Hope this makes sense.
The dialog designer is a great tool but to my knowledge does not accommodate font selection. It currently requires a lot of trial and error moving things around to make the resized text fit properly and aesthetically into a dialog.
I don't have it yet but I have started working on a tool to let you do that very thing. It will take your dialog block code, and display a dialog that will let you resize and move buttons that pretend to be existing text objects. You can move and resize them so that their start locations will be correct for when you resize your text objects. When you close it the locations and object definitions will be merged and written to the clipboard so you can paste it over your old dialog block.
I started this a couple of months ago after creating a barcode label with about 30 elements that had to fit on a 4" x 6" label. I have not come close to finishing it but was informed this week that another barcode label needs to be done. So I now have incentive.
Also If you are using Font= in the dialog, you only have one font size to contend with. Now that you have version 11, look up help for SetDialogObjectFont>. This function will allow you to set the font (and color) for each individual dialog object. You can have a plethora of different sizes to contend with.
Hope this makes sense.
Hi JRL,JRL wrote:Excellent questions.
The dialog designer is a great tool but to my knowledge does not accommodate font selection. It currently requires a lot of trial and error moving things around to make the resized text fit properly and aesthetically into a dialog.
I don't have it yet but I have started working on a tool to let you do that very thing. It will take your dialog block code, and display a dialog that will let you resize and move buttons that pretend to be existing text objects. You can move and resize them so that their start locations will be correct for when you resize your text objects. When you close it the locations and object definitions will be merged and written to the clipboard so you can paste it over your old dialog block.
That tool (macro?) sounds great... but I'm thinking this improvement to the dialog designer may already be on the official "wish list"...
Marcus, if this is on there, can you give us any hint as to when it might arrive?
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Trial and error, eh? Hmmm..., I was afraid of that.
Well, everything you've said makes sense, so I guess it's just sit down with a cup of coffee and bounce back and forth between the dialog and the designer until I get it right. The SetDialogObjectFont> will probably help, since I don't need the same fonts for labels & buttons. In that regard, then, I guess there's also no way to wrap the text within a button? Unless I'm missing it, I couldn't find it in the table of object properties in the help on Dialogs.
Well, everything you've said makes sense, so I guess it's just sit down with a cup of coffee and bounce back and forth between the dialog and the designer until I get it right. The SetDialogObjectFont> will probably help, since I don't need the same fonts for labels & buttons. In that regard, then, I guess there's also no way to wrap the text within a button? Unless I'm missing it, I couldn't find it in the table of object properties in the help on Dialogs.
