--- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:47 pm, Benoit St-Jean
> wrote:
> > Just fetched the latest updates and had a few
> > surprises...
> >
> > First, it looks like update 5195 doessn't like my
> > appearance prefs since I've replaced the base
> fonts
> > with the AccuFonts...
> >
> > So TextMorph>>#fontName:size: expects the presence
> of
> > a specific font (ComicBold) and halts if the
> specified
> > font isn't found instead of just using the
> default.
> >
> > Okay then, I'll email a bug report...  MailSender
> > class blows when I try to email the bug report
> since
> > it seems the #preferred method is missing from
> that
> > class...
> >
> > Am I alone with those problems?
> 
> No. I have a CS somewhere where I fixed most of the
> hard-coded font 
> names. I will post that someday when I can get some
> time.
> 
> However, at present you can just do something like:
> 
> TextConstants at: #ComicBold put: (TextConstants at:
> #Accula).

Well, that's the kind of trick I am not a fan of... 
I'd rather provide a default font, print a warning on
the Transcript and proceed instead of raising an error
(like it is right now in TextMorph>>fontName:size:)

> There has been a bug fix already for the MailSender
> (just change 
> #preferred to #default).

Ok. Thanks!

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Benoit St-Jean
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