March 21, 200520 yr Author 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.
March 21, 200520 yr 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.
March 22, 200520 yr 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.
March 22, 200520 yr 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.
March 22, 200520 yr Author *******. 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.
March 22, 200520 yr 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.
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