Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!taob
From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Appleworks GS Communication module
Message-ID: <518@generic.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 91 01:45:02 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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From platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus):

> I was just wondering if Anyone could get the AppleWorks GS comm
> module to function pwell.  I never have tried it untill tonight,
[..snip..]
>         Does anyone know how to get this to work or if there is a
> way to change the font is uses for the display?
> I got around this shortcoming by cutting from the comm screen and
> pasting it to the WP mod so I could read what came through.
> This is a pain though.

    It uses 9-point Monaco (a monospaced font) to display the text in the
communications window.  There is no way to change the default font (short of
editing the application file itself).  What's more, the line height of the
text is hard-coded into AWGS.  I took a 6-point monospaced font, fiddled with
it so AWGS thought it was actually 9-point Monaco and placed it in my System
folder.  I did this because I wanted more than 15 lines to show on the screen
at once.  Didn't work.  AWGS still draws each line 12 or 13 pixels high, no
matter what size font you use.

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  |  is method in 't."