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Course Type: Web Seminarbr />Course ID: br />P>Highlights and demonstrates several new features that support a test-driven development (TDD)./P>

P>IMG style="WIDTH: 75px; HEIGHT: 100px" title="Patrick Roth" hspace=10 alt="Patrick Roth" align=right src="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/developingfordynamicsgp/images/9020596/original.aspx" width=75 height=100 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/developingfordynamicsgp/images/9020596/original.aspx">/P> P>Aren't secrets fun?  And while having a secret is fun in and of itself, it is also fun to share them from time to time (and allowed to share them)./P> P>The secret today is an undocumented feature that I believe was added to 10.0 SP2.  As an undocumented feature, this means:/P> UL> LI>It might not work for you/LI> LI>It might cause "issues"/LI> LI>Don't ask support about it if it causes "issues"/LI> LI>Might not work in the future/LI>/UL> P>That said:/P> UL> LI>I can't see why it wouldn't work/LI> LI>I don't see what issues it would cause and is completely reversible /LI>/UL> DIV class=legend>In the Dexterity Options window under the sanScript tab, there are currently 4 choices for fonts.  Courier, Helvetica, Times, System./DIV> DIV class=legend> /DIV> DIV class=legend>The font setting is hooked to the Dex.ini switch - ScriptEditorFontName./DIV> DIV class=legend> /DIV> DIV class=legend>The "secret" is; if you enter your own font name here Dexterity will use that font in the Dexterity Script Editor (or Script Debugger) window./DIV> DIV class=legend> /DIV> DIV class=legend>There is also an undocumented (as far as I can find) Dex.ini switch to change the style of the font - ScriptEditorFontStyle.  This switch allows you to set the Bold, Underline, or Italic setting of the font as well.  You can use these settings either individually or multiple settings./DIV> DIV class=legend> /DIV> DIV class=legend>Below, I have modified my Dexterity Dex.ini to change the font from the default "Courier" to "Verdana" by changing the ScriptEditorFontName setting.  I then also made the font style to be Bold, Italic, and Underline by adding the ScriptEditorFontStyle setting.  /DIV> DIV class=legend> /DIV> DIV class=legend>STRONG>Dex.ini Example /STRONG>TEXTAREA style="BORDER-BOTTOM: gray 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: gray 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f4f4f4; MARGIN: 20px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; WIDTH: 97.5%; PADDING-RIGHT: 4px; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New', courier, consolas, monospace; HEIGHT: 56px; MAX-HEIGHT: 200px; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; OVERFLOW: auto; BORDER-TOP: gray 1px solid; CURSOR: text; BORDER-RIGHT: gray 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 4px" class=code wrap=off rows=3 cols=80 readOnly>ScriptEditorFontName=Verdana ScriptEditorFontStyle=Bold,Italic,Underline /TEXTAREA>/DIV> P mce_keep="true">I'm pretty sure that this is NOT the combination I'd pick to work with but you can clearly see in the screenshot that it does work.STRONG> /STRONG>/P> P mce_keep="true">STRONG>Screenshot of my Dexterity Script Editor window using the above settings/STRONG>/P> P mce_keep="true">IMG style="WIDTH: 696px; HEIGHT: 365px" title="Dexterity Script Editor with Font Change" alt="Dexterity Script Editor with Font Change" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/developingfordynamicsgp/images/9809954/original.aspx" width=696 height=365 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/developingfordynamicsgp/images/9809954/original.aspx">/P> P mce_keep="true">One important thing to note.  While the Script Editor window will respect the settings for the ScriptEditorFontName and use that font, the Dexterity Options window DOES NOT know about the change.  If it finds a font in the Dex.ini it doesn't know about, it will switch your Dex.ini to use the default Courier font.  So if you need to go into the Options window you'll probably have to change your Dex.ini again to reflect the font you'd like to use.  This is the price of using this particular undocumented feature./P> P mce_keep="true">Patrick/P>img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9809942" width="1" height="1">