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Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7 [solved]
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:55 pm
by TomS
Hi.
Can anyone confirm that the debugger behaves differently on Windows 7 when debugging Tabs, Linefeeds Carriagereturn?
On XP it looks like this (This is
PB's screenshot, I hope you don't mind)
But on my Windows 7 it looks like this:
So is this confirmative, or is there something wrong with my PB installation?
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:46 pm
by Trond
It's due to the font selected.
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:20 pm
by TomS
Hm. I tried several fonts for the debugger. But it's still not showing up.
Courier, Courier New, Arial, some Calligraph style...
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:22 pm
by cas
TomS wrote:Hm. I tried several fonts for the debugger. But it's still not showing up.
Courier, Courier New, Arial, some Calligraph style...
That's because Microsoft removed invisible characters from popular fonts in Windows Vista.
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:32 pm
by TomS
cas wrote:That's because Microsoft removed invisible characters from popular fonts in Windows Vista.
Ah. Thanks.
Then I'll try to get an appropriate font for the debugger.
Right now I've got one that shows the characters as spaces. Not quite happy.
Any tipps?
Otherwise I'll have to make one myself.
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7 [solved]
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:31 pm
by Vera
Hi TomS,
maybe a
ProggyFont 
Lately I came across a GNU Project with a well developed opensource
FreeFont that's worth regarding
(incl. a lot of maths and even BlackBold characters).
(choose 'Downloadbereich' to see all versions)
cheers ~ Vera
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7 [solved]
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:54 pm
by TomS
I tried several fonts from proggyfonts.com but they didn't show those characters either.
cas pointed out to me that "terminal" shows symbols. But those are a circle Chr(9), that same circle inverted (white on black background) for Chr(10) and a musical note for Chr(13).
I wanted to create my own font, but fontstruct doesn't allow editing this ascii-range
I downloaded what I think was the latest zip (freefont-otf-20100919) from this gnu project, but those fonts also show only a few characters from 1 to 31. 9 and 13 are just plain empty.
Thanks anyway. Do you all still use XP?
Re: Debugger not showing Tab, Linefeed etc on Win7 [solved]
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:14 am
by Vera
TomS wrote:characters from 1 to 31
I didn't know it's exactly for these - I'll have a look what a fontviewer will show me about my fonts
Do you all still use XP?
yes, and with every new info about the newer Wins I'm even more convinced to stay.
But that just got me an idea -
why not use the 'old' WIN-fonts from XP ?
(shall I send you the one or the other ?)