Ok, I take your points which just prove the fact that mSL is poorly documented. I had realised what the size style was doing, but not why or if it could be controlled in anyway - no documentation.
Regarding the apples and oranges comment, I'm trying to make one line of a font to stand up to the same line size of a symbol that should be part of the same font. Thats apples being the same size as apples.
Your font question also raises a similar problem to the one I raised but in the width field. I hadn't even considered that.
I have had a good look at the dialog I created and the font in use is the Times New Roman that I mentioned ealier (at 12 point).
Given what I detailed in this thread, and your query, it does rather raise the issue of dialogs in general. Dialogs are a visual interface, in fact a GUI element. They are visual, and if the visuals does not make sense, it is pointless.
On the matter of font width, the use of a proportional font as a default is not going to look anything like a default of a fixed font, and what point size is being used as the default. Are our very nice looking dialogs going to be big enough for someone else's system with large fonts, for someone who is partially sighted (as an exmple) ?
I think I will drop this, it's a waste of time. It's a visual implementation that doesn't make sense in a visual world.
Last edited by Erasimus; 30/04/18 02:47 PM.
