2020R2.1 Font Size

Targets iOS
#1

In 2020R2.01 I had code in a Paint event that did

g.fontsize = somevalue

Font has changed in 2020R2.1 - this code fails to compile.

G.font.size = somevalue doesnt work

Given that .size is readonly on the new Font object, how the fudge do I change the size now?

Help for Graphics: (none of this works)

Sub Paint(g As Graphics)
g.Bold = True
g.Italic = True
g.FontName = “Helvetica”
g.FontSize = 18
g.DrawText(“The quick brown fox”, 10, 50)

#3

I got it to work with
g.font = new font( Name, size)

but I don’t really understand why we need to keep creating a ‘new’ font each time (unless that is what was happening under the hood previously when using .fontsize = X)

In any case, the docs need amending

#4

The ease of Realbasic is going away.

We’d like to set properties and under the hood Xojo can recreate whatever OS font object is needed.

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#5

:point_up_2:

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#6

see feedback case 63117 - some graphics properties are not available on IOS