[screen]

The [screen] section of the initialization file defines the fonts used in the GUI user interface and additional settings for screen display.

Settings

• ShiftFont

Logical Fonts

• LogicalFont—name of a font definition. The following logical names are reserved by Uniface, but you can also define your own:
  • ButtonFont
  • buttons
  • combo
  • debug
  • DiagramFont
  • font0—system font definition.
  • EditFont
  • FormText
  • GFP
  • IDEOutputBox
  • IDFButtonText
  • IDFButtonTextLarge
  • IDFCategories
  • Label
  • ListFont
  • messagefont
  • ProcboxFont
• TypeFace—type face of a font that is available on the system; for example, Courier New or Arial. The TypeFace definition is sensitive to spaces.
• CharacterSet—optional character set, for example, Western, Symbol, or Cyrllic. If not specified, the installed character set is used. The CharacterSet definition is sensitive to spaces.
• FontSize—point size of the font; for example, 10
• FontStyles—one or more of the following styles, separated by spaces:
  • regular
  • bold
  • italic
  • underline

  The bold, italic, and underline styles take precedence over regular. Thus, if both bold and regular are listed in the definition, bold is used in the representation.

Description

There are separate sections for screen and printer fonts, because a font that is suitable for the screen can print very slowly if it does not match exactly with a built-in printer font. By default, Uniface uses the same logical fonts for displaying and printing. However, these logical fonts are mapped to different physical fonts.

If you want true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), you should make font definition in both sections identical.

Changing Font Definitions

Changing the physical font or font size can result in unattractive form layouts that are too small for the data. This can occur if you change the font0 definition, or if you specify large font sizes.

The font0 definition is used to display the Font 0 meta character set and it determines the size of character cells in form and report layouts, menus, buttons, and panels. Changing the font0 definition can result in form layouts that do not fit the designed layout. For example, if you change the font size there may not be enough space available on the form to accommodate the larger character cells.

Specifying very large fonts can also produce unattractive results because all characters are positioned and clipped in a fixed-size grid determined by the character cell, as defined by font0.