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From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pop-up menus and MPW scripts
Message-ID: <2996@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 27 Mar 90 08:16:00 GMT
References: <27526@cup.portal.com> <10910@claris.com> <39844@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <39844@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) writes:
>Up until 6.0.4, the space reserved for item marks was a hard-coded constant.
>Although it looked a little wierd in the US, the real problem was in other
>countries - if the font was larger than Chicago 12 or draw from right-to-left,
>the overlapping characters made things impossible to read.  I changed the
>offset to be calculated from the font - it's now identical to a space.
>
>Of course, this makes me a little curious - as developers, in the future,
>would you rather that we fix bugs like these, or leave them alone?

How about making the fix backward compatible.  I'd have been happy if you
had special cased Chicago-12/left-to-right text and left the old offset
if it found the 'most-likely-to-be-noticed-and-complained-about' case and
done the special processing for all others...

Of course, I dont know enough about the Script Manager -- can you actually tell
that the text is Chicago or is it just (font==0)