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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 2.0 Compatibility
Message-ID: <21174@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 91 21:34:39 GMT
References: <4766@orbit.cts.com> <1991May1.213904.338@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991May2.110934.30307@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga, Inc.  West Chester, PA.
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In article <1991May2.110934.30307@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>The screen->Font can be just about anything under 2.0.  As said,
>GfxBase can use give a proportional font.

The system will not put a proportional font in GfxBase->DefaultFont.
You _can_ count on that being a monospace font, of some size or other.

>One big gripe I have is that GadTools dont support GREL positioning.
>I can deal with the "window as a requester" issue, but the lack of
>relative support kills GadTools for things like dynamic sizable
>windows in editors, etc.

It's a pretty common enhancement request.  There were some reasons
why it was tricky, and so it didn't make it in.

>Mark Gooderum			Only...		\    Good Cheer !!!

     Peter
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