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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Graphics Text functions
Summary: Check the name of the library pointer.
Message-ID: <858@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 89 00:00:39 GMT
References: <14507@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <14507@boulder.Colorado.EDU> judd@tramp.Colorado.EDU (JUDD STEPHEN L) writes:
>fonts?  My program (see excerpt below) gets to the AvailFonts() call and gurus
>  Diskfont:= OpenLibrary(ADR('diskfont.library'), 0);  
>  IF Diskfont = NIL THEN HALT; END;
> ...
>  Sapphire14:= OpenDiskFont(textAttr);

Are you absolutely certain that you are using the right variable name to
hold the address of the diskfont.library?  If OpenDiskFont() makes a
reference to the external global variable DiskFont and you put the pointer
into Diskfont, that is guarenteed to cause a GURU.
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