[lazarus] Work being done

[Vincent Snijders]

From: Marc Weustink <Marc.Weustink at cuperus.nl>
> + From: Vincent Snijders [mailto:vsnijders at zonnet.nl]
> + I tried to run lazarus under Windows but when I opened the + testform an
> illegal font was loaded and the program ended
> + with an access violation:
> + from the console output:
> +   Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_font_load: font name
> +   -*--normal-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  illegal
> + An unhandled exception occurred at 0x00423EC2 :
> + Access violation
> 
> Hmm... this seems to be an inconsistency between the win32 and the linux
> gdk. Under linux it reports that the requested font can't be loaded.
> You get this when you try to load a not existing font and the assume it is
> loaded and try to copy it (all with API funcs). This is what mwEdit does
> very often.

Any ideas on how to solve or circumvent this problem?