Find/replace dialog Font

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:35 am

I'd like to be able to change the font of the find/replace dialogs to a non-proportional one. I vaguely remember it to be the same font as the current document, but I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, it's an Arial-like font now and pretty hard to select text, especially when you have a number of "narrow" letters, such as capital I and lowercase L, after each other. With the blinking caret, it's hard even to see which letter is selected and which one isn't.

Berend Veldkamp

LonelyPixel · Post by **LonelyPixel** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:43 pm

Changing the font is a good idea, but I'd not change it to a fixed-width one, but to a TrueType one! Tahoma f.ex.
I have CoolType enabled here, and it seems it can only smooth TrueType fonts, but not raster fonts (sounds logically...). And what is set now looks like MS Sans Serif or so... Guess that's a raster font

For configuration: It would be sufficient to let the user choose one font style for all dialog windows, or maybe just pay attention to the user's Windows setting for that?

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:00 am

Well, there are fixed width fonts that are truetype: Andala mono, Courier New, Lucida Console... But if I can choose any font from a list I'd be satisfied.
AFAIK there's no Windows setting that controls the font of a text-box, and I don't want the *general* dialog window setting to be fixed-width.

Berend

LonelyPixel · Post by **LonelyPixel** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:59 am

ah, you meant the font for the text boxes only? sounds more reasonable...

i was already wondering, why would one want to change the dialog font to fixed?...

right, there is no windows setting for this.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:23 pm

We would like to be able to change the font in the dialog box to Courier. We heavily depend on TextPad to edit fixed-position data files. It is very helpful when each letter occupies the same "space" as all other letters and spaces. That way we actually see how the field lengths are being affected by our amendments. Using the standard font in this version of TextPad requires that we now count letters and spaces.

danglund · Post by **danglund** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:17 pm

The path field is way too narrow, even with the tiny fonts. My source tree is so deep that I hardly ever see the complete path.

I would like the "Find in files" dialog to be resizable.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:31 pm

As a temporary solution you can try this. The Find in files dialog is under Dialog->28->1033.
I did this for Find, Replace and Find in files, using Courier 10 in all cases. But take care if you want to try it, back up your original Textpad.exe.

danglund · Post by **danglund** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:10 pm

s_reynisson wrote:As a temporary solution you can try this. The Find in files dialog is under Dialog->28->1033.
I did this for Find, Replace and Find in files, using Courier 10 in all cases. But take care if you want to try it, back up your original Textpad.exe.

What can I say. Thank you very much. I use Courier New 10. It is ugly, but readable

I try getting people at work using Textpad, but tiny fonts and other GUI quirks can be a real show-stopper sometimes. This is something that should be fixed properly some time though, and it probably will.

JMM · Post by **JMM** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:12 pm

I completely agree with what the original poster said and strongly support the addition of the feature.

gracefool · Post by **gracefool** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:59 pm

This was added to Grand Unification Theory a while ago.

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