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Subject: Re: AREXX AND RexxArpLib.Library
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Date: 19 Feb 91 22:45:00 GMT
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      Okay, after playing around and consulting the documentation (aka the
source code 8) I have found the following: Setfont is, um, broken.
It first does an OpenFont, and if that succeeds uses the font without
checking it got the right thing. Only if it *doesn't* succeed does it
call OpenDiskFont. So while you can actually open different fonts (such
as courier 11), you can't open the same font at a different size once
another size is already in memory. Worse than that (red face) it doesn't
even close the font before opening a new one! Shows you how often
Setfont gets used around here, I guess... If there's ever a new version
of rexxarplib, that'll be fixed, of course...

       Willy.
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