TextStyleAdd in dialog boxes

[pjdodd]

Is it possible to format the text within custom dialog boxes so it is different sizes, bold or italics?

I've tried using TextStyleAdd on one or two words and the whole messge without luck. Is it a limit that FM7 always uses what looks like Lucida Grande at 10/11 point (the Macs system default setting)?

I'd be grateful for some insight.

[pjdodd]

Is it possible to format the text within custom dialog boxes so it is different sizes, bold or italics?

I've tried using TextStyleAdd on one or two words and the whole messge without luck. Is it a limit that FM7 always uses what looks like Lucida Grande at 10/11 point (the Macs system default setting)?

I'd be grateful for some insight.

[Vaughan]

If you've tried it... then it probably makes you the resident expert! If you say it doesn't work, who am I to argue...

The default dialog font is probably a system wide OS level setting. I've never tried changing the dialog font.

[Ano Nimus]

I tried it on Windows: no luck there either. I think the dialog boxes are probably something that FileMaker invokes out of the OS rather than FileMaker-created ('user-stylable') objects.

[pjdodd]

*******. That's what I suspected - I confirmed that the font used on Mac is indeed the system font Lucinda Grande by changing the system font using TinkerTool.

I guess it's one more feature to add to the wish list.

[Ano Nimus]

You could create your own dialog boxes by having a new window pop up and format the text in that to whatever you like it to be. Which means you have to script the 'OK' 'Cancel' and whatever other buttons yourself of course.

I agree, for esthetics' sake, it would be nice to be able to 'format' the dialog boxes.