87437 - Installer uses wrong font for directory name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Matthew Hornyak]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001062204

When the installer reaches the directory name page of the installer wizard, it 
uses my dialog box font, which is too large for the allotted space.

Either a smaller font should be used (such as hardcoding MS Sans Serif) or the 
space should be adjusted according to how large the font is.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using the Control Panel, set your message box font to Gill Sans 24 (or 
another PostScript font with a large size)
2. Launch the installer
3. Go forward to the choose directory page

Actual Results:  Most of the text for the directory name was truncated

Expected Results:  I could view at least all of any character printed, followed 
by an ellipse indicating an abbreviated directory name

Comment 1

[Matthew Hornyak]

Attachment: Installer with corrupted display

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

Ying, can you take a look at this?

Comment 3

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Well, we can not meet everything in the current installer. For the user-input 
fields, we had to pick a system font to allow Japanese user to type in Japanese 
characters, for example, the folder names. See bug 69445, it was more serious 
bug. Now we are using the system Message Dialog font for it. If user set their 
Message Dialog font too big, 24 this case, our installer dialog won't fit. 
Before I made my patch for bug 69445, I checked it already, many softwares have 
similar problems for the too-big font setting. We may need to consider 
everything in the future installer.

Comment 4

[Sean Su]

Ying, can't we, after getting the system font, set the size just for the purpose 
of the installer?  Then reset it back to the original size after getting the 
system font?

Comment 5

[Matthew Hornyak]

for what it's worth, Mozilla is the only app I experience this in (both the 
Installer and the app itself), out of all the apps I use on my computer, so a 
workaround shouldn't be too difficult...

Comment 6

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Yes, Sean, we can force the font to something, like 8, but you know, different 
systems have different default system size, for example, 8 for English, 9 for 
Japanese. If we force it to 8, the Japanese characters will looks little ugly. I 
wonder QA may bug us later if we do so.

Comment 7

[Matthew Hornyak]

May I recommend: 

1) Use the menu font instead of the message box font - it's likely to be smaller
2) I'm pretty certain there's a Windows API function which will allow you to 
determine the dimensions of the text before you display it... perhaps run the 
text through this function?

Comment 8

[David Illsley]

*** Bug 95995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Confirming and marking NEW.

PS Greets to hablack (I also went to Tech).

Comment 10

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Sean, do you mind if I reassign this bug to you? I think you are the right 
person to decide how we do it properly. Thanks.

Comment 11

[Hal Black]

would someone mind adding the access keyword to this bug?  Probably should be
mozilla/netscape 1.0 also.

Comment 12

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Adding keywords per Hal's request.

PS VT greets! (I'm a CS graduate 2000)

Comment 13

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 170110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 197756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Seamonkey and Firefox are using a new NSIS based installer. resolving this old bug, please reopen if you still get this with the new installer