[ros-kernel] interesting little 'bug'.

Richard Campbell eek2121 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 24 22:45:47 CET 2004


I did what you said, the font does indeed look better under windows, the 
0s and other letters aren't distorted at all, though the font still 
isn't spaced all that great.  It does appear to be a bug in ReactOS or 
freetype.

Richard Campbell wrote:

> No.
> Same machine.  (vmware)
>
> Same drivers for 2 of the installations.  ROS and XP.
>
> KJK::Hyperion wrote:
>
>> At 21.44 24/01/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> so why is the ROS dialog bigger?
>>
>>
>>
>> different font, different metrics, different dialog sizes
>>
>>> Note also that the fonts are distorted in the ROS dialog..
>>
>>
>>
>> distorted? the "s", maybe, and some others. But it may be the 
>> different font. Try redefining the "MS Shell Dlg" and "MS Shell Dlg 
>> 2" aliases in Windows XP to the Vera Sans Serif font we're using in 
>> ReactOS - if it's different even in that case, I'd call it a ReactOS bug
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