[Lazarus] Synedit: background colours and f(o)nts

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

zeljko at holobit.net wrote:
> Quoting Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
> 
>> Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/02/2012 09:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>> In the same program (running on Linux), the Synedit font appears to 
>>>> force itself to a generic Sans at runtime, irrespective of what is 
>>>> actually selected (e.g. Monospace). Again, this is OK up to around 
>>>> 0.9.26.
>>>
>>> No idea...  You set the font via the object inspector?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If you put a label in with the same font. does that work?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> Have you tried other fonts?
>>
>> Yes, it's a general problem.
>>
>>> Are they in that name-15-*-* format ?
>>
>> That was available in gtk1, but appears to not be in gtk2 or Qt's font 
>> dialog (although it would be nice to have it as an option).
> 
> Since last week trunk gtk2 is fixed and it uses pango fonts everywhere.
> Fonts are consistent now (at least with qt under linux).
> 0.9.30.XX will stay as it is, don't think that it will be merged there.

Thanks, trunk with 2.7.1 compiling for gtk2 now looks OK. i can live 
with that :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]