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From: ken@cbmvax.UUCP (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Using multiple fonts with Intuition
Message-ID: <7859@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 15:14:39 GMT
References: <1317@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.UUCP (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1317@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> jack@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (The Prism) writes:
>I have an Amiga programming question involving using multiple fonts
>with intuition.  First of all, my program sets up the screen using
>topaz 11 as the standard font, later on however, I want to change fonts
>to courier 18, but when I print my string, it is still in topaz 11.
>below are the lines from my program where I try to use courier 11:
> --------------
>
>struct TextAttr biggerfont = {
>	"courier.font",
>	18,
>	FS_NORMAL,
>	FPB_DISKFONT,
>};
>
>struct IntuiText	IT2 = {
>	WHITE, 0,
>	JAM1, 100, 100,
>	&biggerfont,
>	"This is a test",
>	NULL,
>}
>
>    ...
>    ...
>    ...
>
>	PrintIText(rport,&IT2,0,0);
>    ...
>    ...

For IntuiText to have access to a font, it must be in memory.  Use
OpenDiskFont() to load the font and this should work.  Remember to 
close the font when you are done.

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