Re: Fonts handling braindamage in Forms4.0

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950304185223.64035i-100000_at_IEDV7.acd.com>, Vassili Leonov <leonov_at_IEDV7.acd.com> writes:
|> I wonder if anybody (from Oracle?) figured out how to
|> customize boilerplate fonts in Forms4.0 applications
|> running under X11. The problem is that it looks like the
|> whole conception of handling fonts in X11 was ALIEN to
|> authors of this product. As a result, if you dare to
|> assign a particular font to an object in the designer this
|> font name is HARDCODED into the application executable (.fmx).
|> If you happen to run this application from multiple X-terminals,
|> each with possibly different set of fonts installed - you're in
|> trouble. OK, there is a solution there - don't use fonts
|> assignment in the designer - just use the default, and then
|> you can set the X-resources to define different fonts. Though
|> resources are not documented etc., but still you can deliver with that.
|>
|> BUT - there is NO resource defined for the boilerplare
|> text, it is set to 'fixed'. Guess what happens if there is no
|> 'fixed' alias defined on the X-terminal when you run it?
|> So - Oracle tech support is not able to tell me anything, maybe
|> collective wizdom of the Net would say something? :-)
|>
|> Thank a lot,
|>
|> hope Oracle would fix this - I can explain in more detail how to
|> fix this whole problem to them if they need that... If they give me
|> the source I can fix that :-)
|>
|> Vassili.
|>

Sure Vassili, I run into this problem every day and I say: AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! :-{} Received on Wed Mar 08 1995 - 23:52:28 CET