According to the user experience docs, it should default to Tahoma on
Win2k and up. Unfortunately, in practice it still defaults to MS
Sans Serif.
Is MS lying here? ;-)
No -- it's that many people didn't update their UI for the newer
versions of Windows. Remember, most dev environments don't have the
concept of "System" so they don't update depending on the OS (this, of
course, depends on the tool).
One of the things I noticed when I got my PC was that the user could
change a lot of appearance items in Windows XP. This doesn't help the
RB designer unless they choose their own fonts and not rely on the
System fonts set by the user. Very unfriendly from a developers
standpoint.
Hardly -- the developer has access to any user changeable setting in the
system (whether it's via built-in RB APIs like SpecialFolder, etc) or
via declares (like SystemColors in the WFS). The one thing the
developer should never do is include their own fonts and use them since
that's almost 100% guaranteed not to be what the user wants.
~Aaron
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