Small Basic Known Issue: 21694 - Font and Pen Width Change Earlier in Remote
Introduction
Series of know issues articles are showing known issue itself about Small Basic and it's workaround. In this article, local means Small Basic IDE environment and **remote **means smallbasic.com environment with internet browser and Silverlight add-in.
Phenomenon
Setting to GraphicsWindow.FontName, GraphicsWindow.FontSize and GraphicsWindow.PenWidth sometimes happen before previous drawing statements in remote. Picture 1 shows texts and ellipses in local. Picture 2 shows the same result in remote.
Picture 1 - Result in Local
Picture 2 - Result in Remote
Workaround
To avoid this issue, insert delay 300 ms before FontName, FontSize or PenWidth change.
'Original
GraphicsWindow.PenWidth = pw
'Workaround
msWait = 300
If silverlight Then
Program.Delay(msWait) ' for remote
EndIf
GraphicsWindow.PenWidth = pw
Sample Program
http://smallbasic.com/program/?HRK303-2
http://smallbasic.com/program/?FHL579-0 (with workaround)
http://smallbasic.com/program/?FHL579-1 (without workaround)