[Lazarus] TIBConnection + LCLNoGui + FreeBSD

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 23/05/2011 17:10, Alexander Klenin wrote:
> 
> But it is absent on Windows, so no better than Arial as a cross-platform font

It's free, so deploy it with your application, or use Arial under
Windows and Liberation under Linux/*BSD etc. As the wiki site says, they
are metric compatible so look pretty much identical.

I guess this is where LCL fails miserably. For example, in fpGUI I have
"font descriptions" (aka Font Aliases) just like I have "color aliases".
By the latter I mean colors like clButtonFace, clWindow etc.. They are
numbers to LCL, but depending on the OS and theme, they mean some
platform/theme RGB color at runtime. Just like that, fpGUI uses font
descriptions/aliases: eg:  #Edit1, #Label1, #Grid etc.. In the case of
fpGUI #Edit1 can mean different fonts and styles depending on the OS or
theme being used. Currently under Windows '#Edit1' means 'Arial-8' and
under Linux it means 'Liberation Sans-10'

So form a developer point of view, when I want to set a font I use
#Edit1 instead of a font name - thus giving be a cross-platform way of
working with fonts.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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