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From: hollasch@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Steve Hollasch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: How do I grab the workbench font for a new screen?
Keywords: screen font
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:51:37 GMT
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    I'm writing an intuition program and would like to use an 80-column
font.  First of all, is there a ROM font for 80 columns?  I'm using an
Amiga 1000 with AmigaDOS 1.3.

    Failing that, is there some way I can grab the font used in the
current worksbench screen?

    Hmmm.  There's another question that's been bugging me, so I'll just
ask in this article.  I was wondering about how intuition handles
drag-selecting via the NextSelect field in the menu items.  Suppose the
user drag-selects several items.  While I'm processing one of the items
(which may take some time), the user drag-selects more items.  It seems
that the user could destroy the links in this way by overwriting the
NextSelect fields.  Is this true?  Should I do a MenuVerify when more than
one item is selected?

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Steve Hollasch                /      Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
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