[Logic] Info box display problem and workaround

2003年10月15日 15:50:38 -0400

If you are using XP, turn off "Clear Type" and it will work better... also
don't use bold fonts...
It's a strange bug that only seems to affect Logic... I've never seen it
with any other software...
I thought it might be Foxpro, but I see the same problem in the map window,
which is either VB or VC++
I don't think Dennis has had any luck tracking it down so far.
You get used to it after a while ;-)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill VanAlstyne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 15:21
Subject: [Logic] Info box display problem and workaround
> I noticed right away after installing LOGic 6 that the characters in the
> Info box looked really funky -- like there were too many pixels in them,
> very hunky and distorted. But they were still readable, so I put up with
it
> for a while.
>> Then I observed recently -- accidentally -- that if I clicked inside the
> Info box, the characters would clear up, but then gradually deteriorate
> again over the next several seconds. This was such an odd phenomenon that
I
> decided to investigate further.
>> I discovered that the deterioration of the characters occurs every second,
> when the time fields are updated. Somehow, the clock update seems to cause
> all the characters in the Info box to be redrawn as an overlay, but not on
> exactly the same coordinates. (Or the coordinates get rounded differently
> each time. I don't pretend to know exactly how or why this is happening.)
> Anyway, as a result of whatever process is going on here, the non-clock
> characters degrade over a period of four to five subsequent clock updates,
> at which point they reach "max degradation" and don't get any worse.
>> One caveat here -- it's entirely possible that this problem is peculiar to
> my particular video card, video driver, screen resolution, etc. So if
you've
> never seen it, don't worry about it and ignore this posting.
>> But if you have the same problem I did, you can probably solve it by
> changing the default font (Arial 9pt Bold) to something else. A number of
> different fonts manifest the same problem, but some don't seem to. After
> some experimentation, I changed my Info screen to use System 10pt Bold.
The
> typeface is easy to read, it's bigger, and it doesn't get corrupted by the
> clock updates.
>> Bill / W5WVO
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