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On Linux, all the buttons that work fine on Mac and Windows (text size 0) are too small to hold the text under Linux (Ubuntu 7)

If I change the text and button size to suit one platform, it wlooks ridiculous on other platforms.
Is there a standard size of button and text under Linux (seems to default to much larger than I like...)

What does anyone else do to resolve resolution and font size issues like this?

I just put this in the form open event:


That is how I deal with font irregularities.

weird, i find linux in the middle, windows has the smallest font size, mac the largest, so i have the same problem with the Mac versions of my apps.

any other workaround to 'fix' that strange text behaviour on linux ?
i've so many buttons, editfield, statictext ... and so on ...

that's where subclassed controls come in handy... whenever we do a multi-platform-project, we never just use the built-in controls.

an example:
1. new project
2. add class 'MyPushButton', set super to: PushButton
3. edit 'MyPushButton':
- AddEventDefinition 'OnOpen'
- edit the Open-Event-handler:
#if TargetWin32 then
me.Height = 20
#endif
#if TargetLinux then
me.Height = 30
#endif
#if TargetMacOS then
me.Height = 24
#endif
OnOpen

4. Add 'MyPushButton' to your window (you find it in 'ProjectControls', not in 'BuiltIn-Controls')

Now all 'MyPushButtons' will auto-magically have the height you desire.
anything you want on the 'Open-Event', you place in you 'OnOpen'-Event-handler

If you want to change the look&feel, all you need to edit is the Class 'MyPushButton' - and all your 'MyPushButtons' will be fine.

This example only shows the how to set a custom 'Height'. You would of course add/change fonts and what-ever behavior you want/need...
another nice thing: if somewhen a behavior of a control should be broken in RB - or if you want to add something to all your 'MyPushButtons' (e.g.: mouse-cursor), you can "easily" work around it in your own class...


If you decide to write your own 'MyPushButton': with a bit of luck, it might work to change your existing Buttons quite fast with a "Search All & Replace"...

Hate to "reopen" this thread but it fits exactly what I'm wondering about. Is this still the preferred, although bad, way of adjusting for OS difference in font size? I have no problem manually adjusting the font size for each control to a set size that works for an OS but I also realize this isn't a good method since some people could be using smaller or larger fonts for vision issue reasons.