Hi Liz,

I had been having some trouble with fonts "changing
themselves" in P9.

I thought I had it licked, but the difficulty is back, but
with an additional wrinkle:

Now, then I type into certain fields, the blinking cursor is
not located at the point of text entry. Instead, it "lags
behind" the point of entry, and the more I type, the further
back it lags.

You have the zoom level on the form set to something other than 100%. Change
that and you'll be fine. There is no other way to fix it that I've ever
heard.

Liz


Kenneth <usenet at (no spam) soleSPAMLESSassociates.com> wrote:

Hi Liz,

I had been having some trouble with fonts "changing
themselves" in P9.

I thought I had it licked, but the difficulty is back, but
with an additional wrinkle:

Now, then I type into certain fields, the blinking cursor is
not located at the point of text entry. Instead, it "lags
behind" the point of entry, and the more I type, the further
back it lags.

On 2 Jun 2009 17:45:45 -0400, "Liz McGuire"
liz at (no spam) paradoxcommunity.com> wrote:

You have the zoom level on the form set to something other than 100%. Change
that and you'll be fine. There is no other way to fix it that I've ever
heard.

Liz


Kenneth <usenet at (no spam) soleSPAMLESSassociates.com> wrote:
Hi Liz,

I had been having some trouble with fonts "changing
themselves" in P9.

I thought I had it licked, but the difficulty is back, but
with an additional wrinkle:

Now, then I type into certain fields, the blinking cursor is
not located at the point of text entry. Instead, it "lags
behind" the point of entry, and the more I type, the further
back it lags.


Hi Liz, and Denn,

I removed any occurrence of the string ..zoom.. but the
problem persisted.

Might you know of any other possibilities?

(Also, I just checked again, and when I run the form on
other machines, I don't have the cursor problem.)

Thanks again,

On 2 Jun 2009 17:45:45 -0400, "Liz McGuire"

Hi Liz, and Denn,

I removed any occurrence of the string ..zoom.. but the
problem persisted.

Might you know of any other possibilities?

(Also, I just checked again, and when I run the form on
other machines, I don't have the cursor problem.)

If you are zoomed to 100 % (or no zoom at all and explicitly sized and
you have a display problem then your most likely next candidate is a
video driver problem or a bad font file. But I'd be certain about the
zoom first since it is a known cause of what you describe. Also be
certain that you do not have "Large fonts" or "other" set on your screen
display.

I can't explain the other machines part*, but: It's not about a string, it's
a setting. Forms can be displayed at different zoom factors.

From the View menu, choose Zoom (either in design mode or run mode). Ensure
it's set to 100%. From your response, it seems unlikely you're setting it
in code.

* If the zoom setting doesn't fix it, I'd say you have a computer which needs
to be wiped and everything reinstalled. IMO, restores are garbage and just
restore the system to a less stable state.

NOTE: Have you copied the form from a machine that works to the machine that
doesn't, or shared a drive and opened the exact .FDL - so they're really
opening the same form?

Liz


Hi again Liz & Denn,

Hi again Liz & Denn,

I believe that I have the thing fixed, but before explaining
that, allow me to ask what you mean "restores are garbage?"

Denn had suggested the possibility of a damaged font, and
the easiest way for me to check that was to restore an image
of the Windows/Fonts folder that I had from about a month
prior to the start of this problem.

Kenneth <usenet at (no spam) soleSPAMLESSassociates.com> wrote:

Hi again Liz & Denn,

I believe that I have the thing fixed, but before explaining
that, allow me to ask what you mean "restores are garbage?"

I don't mean restoring data/files from backup - that's highly valuable.
I mean "restoring" an entire computer back to some saved state. Some methods,
like LANDesk's imager (whatever it's called) which allows you to roll out
a corporate image onto new computers (so long as the hardware is identical)
and Norton Ghost seem to do this well. The methods built into Windows ("System
Restore") and sometimes added on by PC retailers (Dell and Gateway2000 do/did
this), are, IMO, garbage.

Denn had suggested the possibility of a damaged font, and
the easiest way for me to check that was to restore an image
of the Windows/Fonts folder that I had from about a month
prior to the start of this problem.

This sounds to me like restoring files from backup, not "rolling back Windows".
And, IMO, "image" is the wrong term for backups, though programs may well
use it that way.

Just my opinions. Do what works for you.

Liz