🚀 go-pugleaf

On 14 Apr 98 23:09:20 +0000 "wurzel" <wurzel@itl.net> wrote:
> Can anyone help with an annoying problem I have?

I can try.

> I'm using a /registered/ version of MUI 3.8. I have set it up to use
> certail fonts, and for each application I use that needs it (iBrowse,
> MD-II etc) I have set their MUI defaults to blank.

> I beleive this means they should use the main defaults?

Yes, it should.

> They don't! They keep resetting to use the horrible (IMHO) helvetica/9
> or 11. I hate that!

Yes, for some stupid reason quite a few MUI applications that I have
do that very same thing.

> How can I keep the fonts I've chosen to go through /all/ my MUI
> applications?

As far as I know, you cannot very easily do it.  One program, Voyager,
I know for a fact specifically loads the helvetica fonts when you
click on the "Images" section in the General Preferences.  For some
reason it wants to force use that font.  I've quadruple checked my
MUI global font settings and the MUI font settings for Voyager
specifically.  I have no reference of helvetica anywhere in either
config of settings.  Yet, SnoopDOS still reports Voyager trying to
open that font.

> Any advice gratefully received, whilst I still have some hair ;-)

The first thing that I tried is totally deleting the helvetica font
from my hard drive.  For the most part, this worked with all of my
MUI applications *EXCEPT* Voyager.  When an MUI app would look for
the helvetica font (for whatever reason, I have all of my MUI apps
set *not* to use it) and can't find it, the app defaults to load
something else.  Voyager on the other hand simply either refused to
work, or the "Images" section of the General Preferences would not
show up.  Funny thing about that is the other sections *will* show
up.

Well, since that didn't work, I did the next best thing.  This is
what I recommend you do.  Pick a font that you would like to
replace helvetica every time that it's used.  Then go to your
Fonts directory in your SYS: partition and delete the "helvetica.font"
file.  Then copy the main font file of the font you chose into the
place of the helvetica font file.  I chose the "xen" font and here's
what I did in a CLI window:

cd sys:fonts
delete helvetica.font
copy xen.font helvetica.font

This way every time one of your MUI programs accesses the helvetica
font, it loads the alternate font of your choice.

It works perfectly for me, hopefully it will for you as well.

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