[Lazarus] Lazarus editor font height very small...

[Martin]

On 17/01/2011 20:02, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:12:55 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> And yes I know in Lazarus you can specify a font height as pixels (I
>> think it's the negative font size value or something). I never do that,
>> I use the standard GTK font dialog to specify my font size from the
>> list.
> What I did was to start customize my brand new Lazarus and this
> involves changing the colors around quite a lot since I am used to a
> certain style since many years of Delphi work.
> Anyway, I also wanted to reduce the size of the font so I went to the
> "Editor Font Height" box (which had defaulted to -17 if I remember
> correctly). Here I changed it to 10 expecting a font size similar to
> what I get when setting tha size in other Windows applications like
> Notepad etc. But it caused the very small size to appear.
So you got the size versus height issue.
Which is indeed a very old bug (afaik), and which is unfortunately not 
fixed in the upcoming release.


> Since people ask things like "which version are you using" can you
> please tell me how I can find out if I have downloaded from SVN and
> specified the fixes branch of 0.9.30?
> I have no experience whatsoever with SVN, just installed it and used
> the suggested command on teh WIKI to get the files....
>

In the help menu, abut lazarus should have the version.

If you donloaded from svn, you can lso check with the svn tool for the 
revision number.