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From: root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fonts and freeing memory
Message-ID: <145@ccave.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 03:21:25 GMT
References: <2528@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann)
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In article <2528@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> zupke@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Brian Zupke ) writes:
>Howdy!  I'm working on a C program that loads a font from disk using
>OpenDiskFont(), uses it with SetFont(), and then gets rid of it later with
>CloseFont().  My problem is that each time I run my program, I lose around
>3k-4k bytes of memory (very close to the size of the font on disk).  I've

You MUST use OpenFont() to look for resident fonts before ever calling
OpenDiskFont(). If not, the font is made resident over and over again, in
fact loosing memory for nothing.

So do something like

    if ((WinFont = (struct TextFont *) OpenFont (&ta)) == NULL &&
	    (WinFont = (struct TextFont *) OpenDiskFont (&ta)) == NULL) {
	Abort ("Can't open font\n");
    }

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