| Font compatibility question [message #61426] |
Thu, 17 July 2008 09:11 |
pdoherty
Messages: 8
Registered: April 2007
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I have a fairly large direct graphics GUI program that I am trying to
port from
Windows to Mac OS X. Under IDL 6.1 on Windows it all works fine, even
when IDL is running on Parallels Desktop on the Mac. When I try to run
the
same code under IDL 7.0 on Mac OS, everything goes wrong. It compiles
fine,
but when it runs all sorts of bad things happen and lots of
widget_base entities
just don't even show up on the screen.
It seems that this has to do with the size of widgets under Motif on
the Mac.
I spent quite a bit of time resizing things and was able to get it
(mostly) to work
again. (Then IDL 7.0 crashed, taking my Mac OS down with it, and
replaced my
main .pro file with a zero byte file and destroyed my project file,
but that is
another painful story).
My question is: If things just aren't fitting on the screen is it
because the font
(default in both cases) is just too big? Is there a font under Motif
that looks like
the default Windows font? Or is the Motif widget set just a lot
pickier about
how you align the widgets and such. That appeared to be the case as
well.
Any information would be appreciated. I'd rather not have to go
through this
whole package and add a lot of OS based case statements.
Thank you,
Peter Doherty
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