Changing the Font of a Application

[Christian Audet]

Am I too tired or what ? I try to change the font of a constant field in P01012 and I see the change in FDA but not at runtime. Noting to do it's not working.

Yes I tried to delete the Global Tables !
Yes I saved it !
Yes I did a check-in and check-ou of the APP !
Yes I tried the system function to change the font, but it's only working for EDIT FIELD.
YES I tried in another Application
YES I tried it into Xe and 733.2
YES I'm Desperate !

Christian Audet





Implementing B7333 (Xe) SP14.1, SQL
(Support B732, B7331 and B7332)

 

[Larry_Jones]

Christian,

Sorry but I believe you have to use E.R. code to make font and color changes stick.



Larry Jones
[email protected]
OneWorld B733.1, SP 11.3
HPUX 11, Oracle SE 8.1.6
SandBox: OneWorld XE SP15.1

 

[Christian Audet]

Larry,

What type of ER ? since I saw function "Set Edit Control Color" but it's only for edit control. I try to change the font of a static field such as a check box or a label beside a edit box and "Set Edit Control Color" does not allow to change static field.

Thank

Christian Audet

Implementing B7333 (Xe) SP14.1, SQL
(Support B732, B7331 and B7332)

 

[Larry_Jones]

You're right Christian, its for Edit Controls only.

Sorry,

Larry Jones
[email protected]
OneWorld B733.1, SP 11.3
HPUX 11, Oracle SE 8.1.6
SandBox: OneWorld XE SP15.1

 

[Christian Audet]

Thank Larry,

I finally got a answer from Denver on this issue and they say that the functionality is still not working and they should remove the Font option in the application.

Thank Again for your help,
Have a Good Day !

Christian



Implementing B7333 (Xe) SP14.1, SQL
(Support B732, B7331 and B7332)

 

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

Hi Christian,

It never worked by my experiences neither on B7321 nor on B7331, B7332 and XE.

The only font settings (via Sytem Functions in ER) that work on a Form of an APPL are all corresponding to the contents of the Grid.

Regards,
Zoltán

B7332 SP11, ESU 4116422, Intel NT4, SQL 7 SP1
(working with B7321, B7331, XE too)

 

[Larry_Jones]

Changing Default Font of Applications

List,

Christian's issue caused me to look around and I found how to do something we've wanted to do since day 1 of OneWorld - which was to change the default fonts for all Applications (Arial 9pt).

The answer was in F98980 which has font settings for each language - including the default. It was easy to use SQL and change the default form font and size, grid font and size, etc. I'm sure many of you already knew this (Zoltan) but now I know

Cheers,

Larry Jones
[email protected]
OneWorld B733.1, SP 11.3
HPUX 11, Oracle SE 8.1.6
SandBox: OneWorld XE SP15.1

 

[Christian Audet]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

Thanks Larry,

I didn't know the default font seting in One World either.

About my issue here is the answer from Denver.

============== BEGIN ANSWER FROM DENVER ====================
Hi,

Here is some information from the Knowledge Garden. I found SAR 4701656:
A ORIGINAL REQUEST

PROGRAM NAME/PROGRAM NUMBER:
FDA
.
PLATFORM / SERVER(s) / ENVIRONMENT:
APPL/SPA
.
I am unable to change the font on a static text control
that has been added to a form. I have other static text
controls that were added to the form prior to SPA that have
had the font changed to bold. The new static text control
needs to be added in bold as well.
.

B FINAL DISPOSITION

Fonts were never supported for static controls so therefore
the functionality has been removed from FDA. Fonts can
be changed for edit controls via system functions. For
changing the font for static text, use the text block
control instead.

I found some other SARs too, but basically this isn't supported, it is
functioning as designed. From what I can tell, this has been changed in B9
so users won't have access to any font button in FDA.

Thank you,

============== BEGIN ANSWER FROM DENVER ====================

Christian Audet

Implementing B7333 (Xe) SP14.1, SQL
(Support B732, B7331 and B7332)

 

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

Hi Larry,

Yes, I very well know F98980 table but I know the P98980 application too ;-)

I have had to make minor developments on it under all OW releases that we ever used, making possible to set (and correctly to set) all font parameters for Form/Report/Grid for our Hungarian language via this application.

Regards,
Zoltán

B7332 SP11, ESU 4116422, Intel NT4, SQL 7 SP1
(working with B7321, B7331, XE too)

 

[udayabrao]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

Hi Friends,

If you wish to change the default font on all forms, just change following
the setting in jde.ini file

[INTERACTIVE RUNTIME]
FONT_FaceName=Arial


Change Arial to Times New Roman (or something else)

I have done it Xe Demo and it works fine.

Cheers

Udaya B Chandra

B7332/Xe,MSSQL7.0,NT 4christian



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[Larry_Jones]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

Udaya,

in non-demo environments F98980/P98980 overrides (and in facts overwrites the JDE.INI setting at logon time).

regards,

Larry Jones
[email protected]
OneWorld XE, SP 15.1
HPUX 11, Oracle SE 8.1.6
Mfg, Distribution, Financials

 

[Richard_Zhang]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

Hi Larry,

I believe so, I tried, only the font size of Signon Window got changed, under Oneworld explorer, it seems no change.

Regards,
Richard

 

[timallen]

Re: Changing Default Font of Applications

I just tried the P98980 (Work with Fonts) application to change fonts in applications, and it works. But it still left me with a problem I haven't been able to solve: How do you control word-wrapping in the Exit Bar?

This will sound trivial, but it's always bothered me that, for example, the Active/Inactive bar in the P9601 Package Assembly always wraps ("Active/I..."). I had hoped that changing the font size in P98980 would fix this, but it just wraps in the same place (the letters are just smaller).

I dislike having to hover over a control to see what its purpose is. This is like driving a car where you have to hold you hand over the stick shift to find out what it does.

Does anyone know how to control text wrapping in the exit bar?

Thanks in advance.