Column Mode error: a fixed width font is required for column mode

[roos]

Today I installed 2.0.0.2 of Ultraedit for MAC, but it seems it (still) has bugs.

Column mode can't be enabled. It always errors with "Fixed width font is needed" - even when I set one like Courier or Courier New.

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Also, copy/paste still has unpredicted results. Sometimes it does not copy the contents to the clipboard while doing cut, sometimes it pastes completely crap into the text window. I reported this during the beta phase already.

Generally my impression is that the beta phase was way to short to get everything fixed.

Tested on OSX 10.6.5, German language activated.

[Mofi]

In UE for Windows there are 2 font settings, one for normal edit mode where a proportional font like Arial or Times New Roman can be also used and one for column/hex edit mode which require a fixed-width font. I don't use UEM, but I suppose there are also two font settings. Does help of UEM not contain information about the font settings?

[roos]

Nothing stated in the settings. The help file is of no help, as it seems it also has a bug.
If you click on "Column Mode" in the indexes, you get an error.

As I stated, for me UEM is not ready for me.

[Stefano]

I receive this message by clicking Column Mode button:

"A fixed width font is required for column mode"

I tried using various fonts (such as Andale Mono, Courier New, Courier) but the message is still shown.

What font I have to use? Is it a bug?

Thanx

[Randy Norwood]

It's not very intuitive (I asked IDM the same question during beta), but go here...
View, Set Font, Set Column Mode Font
...and select a fixed width font.

In other words, it's not enough to be using a fixed width font in the regular editor mode--you have to also select it for the column mode.

[Randy Norwood]

In UE for Windows, I've never had this issue (and I've used it for 12+ years). The difference between the Windows and the Mac versions is that in Windows, the options for column-mode font are fixed-width fonts only. In the Mac version, at least in the versions I've used so far, the font selection dialog for column-mode font includes *all* fonts, not just fixed width fonts, and for some reason it seems to be set by default to a proportional font.

I will send this to IDM in case they're not already aware of it.

[chopper]

If you add a new fixed-width font you also need to make sure that OSX recognizes it as a fixed-width font. I had a problem with getting UE/Mac to recognize a 3rd-party Inconsolata font as fixed-width. The problem was that it didn't install in the Mac's folder of fixed-width fonts. I had to go into Font Book and manually move it.

[LVWolfman]

I never messed with the fonts and didn't get any error messages from column mode.

When I look at View->Set Font->Set Column Mode Font, It is using English->Lucida Grande->Regular 13

I'm running UE 2.0.0.2 on OS X 10.6.6

[agnone]

View, Set Font, Set Column Mode Font
...and select a fixed width font.

This worked perfectly! Thanks a lot for posting this. I was starting to get frustrated, as Column Mode is one of the most useful things for coding. Cheers.