[BUG] TextConstants value causes debugger in 3.6 beta

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Aug 15 02:17:42 UTC 2003


On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:47 pm, Phil Hargett wrote:
> As I always like to install the excellent TrueType test styles
> package when building a new image, I noticed that on both my Mac OS
> X machine and my Windows machine that a debugger appears at the end
> of the installation of this package (v5 of the package into a 3.6
> beta image). As best as I can determine, it's not a problem with
> the package itself, however.
>
> The installation ends with an invocation of TTCFont
> class>>initialize, which seems to attempt to build a TrueType
> version of the default style (ComicSans MS).  However, in my image,
> the style that the code finds in TextConstants (for ComicSans MS)
> contains a font array with many fonts, but none of the fonts have a
> set pixel size!  In fact, all of them have nil as their pixel size,
> quite surprisingly.  That is strange, because invoking TTFont
> class>>default yields a basic style for Comic Sans MS with a number
> of pixel / point sizes.  Further, I don't think much about the
> TrueTypeTextStyles package has changed for a while, so it would
> appear that something about the standard constants has changed.

Hi Phil,

Why are you installing that package when it's already part of the 3.6 
image?

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