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Re: Font changes on form...?
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Re: Font changes on form...? -
05-18-2009
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Howdy, I thought that I was losing my mind, but... A few minutes ago, I launched P9, and opened a form that I use every working day. I saw immediately that it was displaying with a font in many fields that was different from the font specified in the design of the form. I then launched the form on another system, and it looked fine. The font that was supposed to display was Arial, but on the machine with the problem it displayed with Courier New. Next, I opened Microsoft Word to see if I could type something using Arial, and indeed, I could. Back in Paradox, I looked at the properties of the form, and, as it should, it showed the font as Arial. When I ran the form after looking at the properties, it appeared as it should. And, with that, I thought the problem solved... But, about an hour later, it happened again. I found that by relaunching Paradox, I could get the proper font, but this does seem rather weird. Might have any suggestions about what could cause such a thing? Many thanks, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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On 18 May 2009 16:29:35 -0400, "Liz McGuire" liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote: How many fonts are installed on the computer? Installed any new fonts or applications (which frequently install fonts without telling you) lately? ~400 When was the last time you power cycled this computer? Today... (and after the re-boot, the font substitution happened again... Thanks for any further thoughts, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Hi Liz, I got a copy of Bitstream Font Navigator, and moved about 100 fonts out of Windows/Fonts into a new folder called Windows/Fonts-2, but the problem with Paradox remains. That, of course, raises a few questions: Would the location of the folder containing the "overflow" fonts matter? Or, might there be another issue I should consider? |
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Hi Liz, I am currently down to 220 (and yes, the dropdown in Word shows the trimmed down list), and could certainly pull more out for the sake of experimentation but... I don't think that this is a "number of fonts" issue. That's because I just realized started having the problem about a week after restoring a months old image of this system. When running the system at the time that this image was created, I never had the problem I have described. The image had about 400 fonts by the way. So, in effect, I went from a 400 font system with no problem to a 220 font system with the problem... Removing more of the fonts is certainly easy enough, but based on what I have just added, would you agree that it may be "drawing board" time? Many thanks, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Hi again Liz, This situation just got a bit more interesting: I decided to restore a copy of the form that I was using a few days before the problem started, and the easiest way to do that was to sit down at our server. (Which, by the way, runs Win 2000 Pro, and is run peer to peer. It is a "server" in the sense that it is not used as a workstation.) The screen looked as it should but when I grabbed the mouse there was no cursor motion. It was a USB mouse, so I unplugged it, and set it in again. Still it could not move the cursor... Then I discovered that the keyboard was also seemingly "dead." So, at that point, I had no way to input to the system, but it was working, in the sense that it provided access to its networked drives. I then powered it down (with the power button because I had no other option) and when it booted up, I launched Paradox on the system that was having the font problem. With that, the fonts were fine... So, this is still very recent, but as of now, it does appear that the problem was caused by the server having put itself into some sort of suspended animation. I'll know more over the next few days. All the best, |
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On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:24:14 -0600, Liz McGuire liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote: Isn't Windows fun?  Liz Hi Liz, I had been having some trouble with fonts "changing themselves" in P9. I thought I had it licked, but the difficulty is back, but with an additional wrinkle: Now, then I type into certain fields, the blinking cursor is not located at the point of text entry. Instead, it "lags behind" the point of entry, and the more I type, the further back it lags. So, suppose I slowly type this line: "The rain in Spain" On screen, it starts by looking like this (with the "^" marking the cursor): "T" ^ with the cursor "splitting" the single character rather than just after it. And if I then continue to type, it would look like this: "The rain in Spain" ^ and then like this: "The rain in Spain is mainly on the plain" ^ There is nothing I can do to get the cursor to appear at the point of entry. But, if I stop typing, and tap the backspace key, the "lag" decreases until there is only one character visible. At that point, the cursor appears cutting through the single character, rather than after is as it should be. There is some sort of proportionality calculation happening because the position of the cursor is precisely the same at each point as I type, and remove characters. Now, I tend to touch type, but when I do glance at the screen, this situation is rather difficult. And, no, I have not seen the problem in any app other than Paradox, and though we run Paradox on other machines, only one system has the problem. Have you ever seen this sort of thing, and might you have any thoughts about how I might correct it? Many thanks, |
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On 2 Jun 2009 17:45:45 -0400, "Liz McGuire" liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote: You have the zoom level on the form set to something other than 100%. Change that and you'll be fine. There is no other way to fix it that I've ever heard. Liz Kenneth <usenet (AT) soleSPAMLESSassociates (DOT) com> wrote: Hi Liz, I had been having some trouble with fonts "changing themselves" in P9. I thought I had it licked, but the difficulty is back, but with an additional wrinkle: Now, then I type into certain fields, the blinking cursor is not located at the point of text entry. Instead, it "lags behind" the point of entry, and the more I type, the further back it lags. Hi Liz, and Denn, I removed any occurrence of the string ..zoom.. but the problem persisted. Might you know of any other possibilities? (Also, I just checked again, and when I run the form on other machines, I don't have the cursor problem.) Thanks again, |
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