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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fonts and freeing memory
Message-ID: <5125@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 18:43:37 GMT
References: <2528@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <145@ccave.UUCP>
Reply-To: kodiak@batgirl.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <145@ccave.UUCP> root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann) writes:
)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.

False.  OpenFont() is not needed here.

OpenDiskFont() will use the memory version if no better version exists on disk.

For 1.3 & earlier, this means the disk is hit every time looking for that
"better match".  This disk hit may be what confused you.

For 1.4, if the match in memory is already as good as it can get, the disk
won't be hit.  To prepare for that, ensure that the ta_Style and ta_Flags
you set in the TextAttr are those from the AvailFonts result: not just the
ta_Name and ta_YSize.

- Kodiak
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