Throughout our app we have dialogues with Entry fields which all apply a rounded corner style. Following a recent change to use Ariel size 8 throughout the app as a modernisation we have one dialogue which doesn’t show the font correctly:
Note the compressed letters in the “title” entry. This is how a normal dialogue should look:
Despite racking my brains, comparing the .clw definitions etc I simply can’t understand why this particular dialogue is doing this. I’ve even deleted and recreated all the items with no joy.
Both are derived from the same basic template, and nothing particularly fancy going on.
If you look at the declaration for that Dialog, I think you’ll find that a Font is set specifically on the Title prompt and entry controls. In other words they are not using the window setting, but their own setting. Edit the window declaration (the … button) and remove them.
Also - Arial is modernisation? It’s a lot better than Ms San Serif, but if you want modern use Segoe UI.
And the trend is towards larger, not smaller, fonts. Personally I use Segoe UI 10 pt.
Thanks all for your suggestions, much appreciated.
The Entry isn’t using a separate font than the form, they were all removed during the cosmetic changes recently. FWIW I agree about Arial, but it was settled on for now as that’s the current form of the product website.
The Window Preview doesn’t work for me, just pops up a dialogue to submit a report with the window structure.
As for where the rounded corner format is derived from, I’m honestly not sure - there’s no specific declaration in the other dialogues, but it seems to apply everywhere but here.
Anyway here is the declaration for the non-working dialogue (apologies I couldn’t find how to shrink/reformat text in the forum posting system):