Getting Started

Portability of colors and fonts

If your application will be used on multiple platforms, the colors and fonts of the parts must be available on all systems that will run your application.

If you do decide to change the colors of parts in your application, use only the basic colors on the Colors window, because nonbasic colors can appear differently on different platforms.

For systems with different fonts installed, make sure the fonts you choose are available on all systems that will run your application. For example, since the OS/2 system proportional font displays double-byte characters as blanks, you should not choose this font if you need to support double-byte character sets. You might also have problems with certain fonts if your application will be run with different code pages.

For more information related to changing a part's font and color, refer to the section on changing a part's design, in the chapter on adding a user interface in the How Do I .


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