[futurebasic] RE: [FB] [FB3] Appearance Manager & Menu Font

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From: Peter Bancroft <peter@...>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:17:59 +1100
>I'm not exactly sure how you would properly affect the menu bar and the
>menu's.  With that said I would [[[not]]] recommend this for a menu bar.
>However, you could use it for a pop-up and it would work just fine.  Maybe
>you could make it work for the menubar and menus but I accidently forgot to
>change back to the system font and the machines appeared to be confused.  I
>got a mixture of system and application fonts.  The menu bar would stay the
>system font until I click on a menu and then it would change to the font I
>had chosen.  It was a mess

I've seen this done in a number of very early Mac programmes, Circa 1986.
Coloured Fonts, different sizes... Wish I could remember what the apps
were, may have them around here on 400k stiffies. Don't think PPCs can read
them though.

Of course all this _will_ disappear with OSX.

Peter                 mailto:peter@...
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