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In article <92Oct28.195707.35178@acs.ucalgary.ca> gerke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Ken Gerke) writes:
>One of our lecturers has developed some tutorial software in Microsoft's
>Quick Basic for Mac and it uses a couple of different fonts to 
>highlight certain parts of the information displayed.  Lately, on seemingly
>equivalent Macs, the font control goes away and all text looks the same.
>
>We have tried changing the fonts used in the desktop and varying the
>boot disk (system 6.05 and 6.07) used with the machines (Mac SE's and
>LC's) without success.  What else is there to try?
>

I can't say that I have any idea as to what would cause this problem
but I will say that you should make sure that the same fonts are installed
in each system.  If I remember correctly the fonts are referenced by 
a font number and if that number is not available the default font (usually
Geneva) will be used.  

A simple way to check on which fonts are being referenced by which numbers
would be to write a simple program in Quick Basic that prints out some
text and varying the font number.  For example:

For i = 0 to 15
	call textfont(i)
	print "This is font number",i
next i 

You could compare this output with the font numbers that are being
used in the tutorial program and with a little luck should be able
to figure out what's going on.

Please Note:  It's been a while since I did anything with QB for the 
mac and I don't have my manual with me so the above code is off the
top of my head and could be incorrect.

Hope this helps!

Bill  
 

In article <92Oct28.195707.35178@acs.ucalgary.ca> gerke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Ken Gerke) writes:

   One of our lecturers has developed some tutorial software in Microsoft's
   Quick Basic for Mac and it uses a couple of different fonts to 
   highlight certain parts of the information displayed.  Lately, on seemingly
   equivalent Macs, the font control goes away and all text looks the same.

   We have tried changing the fonts used in the desktop and varying the
   boot disk (system 6.05 and 6.07) used with the machines (Mac SE's and
   LC's) without success.  What else is there to try?

I'm new to BASIC but not to Macs.  If this problem were happening in
any MAC program, I would say what a couple of folks did about being
sure you have the same fonts loaded in each machine.  Another way to
find this out is to use Font/DA Mover to see what fonts are installed
in each of your systems.  You can use Font/DA Mover to attach fonts to
the program itself instead of relying on their being available in the
System.  That's probably the safest thing, if you are going to port
the program to different machines and are using nonstandard fonts.

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