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Author Message   Kevin Ellwood (ikevin) Member Username: ikevin Post Number: 29 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 11:17 am:    I am having a slight problem that I can't figure out. The text in the staus window never gets fully cleared. I have attached a screen shot of the status window. Any thoughts? Kev Staus Window status2.png (22.2 k)   Robert G. Nelson (rgnelson) Moderator Username: rgnelson Post Number: 307 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 07:37 pm:    The Graphic display system is smearing the font (they probably call it "smoothing"). FlexPDE writes white text over the existing black text, which doesn't erase the smearing put in by the OS. On XP and Macintosh, there is a system preference control to set the minimum font size to be smeared. I presume that SuSe does, too. Try setting it to 12 point.   Kevin Ellwood (ikevin) Member Username: ikevin Post Number: 30 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 10:38 am:    I turned antialiasing off in KDE and that fixed it but that isn't a realistic solution. How do I change the font in the status window? I sequentially changed all of the fonts in the KDE control panel and none of them corresponded to the status window in flexpde. Thanks Kevin   Robert G. Nelson (rgnelson) Moderator Username: rgnelson Post Number: 309 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 02:02 pm:    1. For many years, FlexPDE has used over-writing in white to erase text. This worked fine until the OS programmers decided to "beautify" their displays by shadowing the text. So now we are faced with the need to rewrite our program to compensate for the beautification, instead of working on PDE functionality. Oh, well.... I will put it on the list. 2. The status window uses the default application font as returned by Qt. At present we have no mechanism for selecting the font. I don't know how Qt sets their default.   Kevin Ellwood (ikevin) Member Username: ikevin Post Number: 31 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 02:22 pm:    Thanks, I'll try to figure out the Qt font selection and get back to the forum. Kev   Robert G. Nelson (rgnelson) Moderator Username: rgnelson Post Number: 310 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 02:26 pm:    We use a static linked version of Qt, not the one bundled with the OS.