Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!chrisg From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: 2.0 Compatibility Message-ID: <21274@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 6 May 91 13:22:58 GMT References: <1991Apr30.133904.12649@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <52454@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 >>Programs that follow the rules in the RKMs *exactly* are already >>having problems with 2.0. For example, 2.0 allows you to change >>the default screen and window fonts. Try changing to a 15 point font >>and watch menustrips get screwed up! The whole point of my posting is >>that there is NO way to maintain compatibility given the direction >>things have and are going. Commodore gave out a program to change the default system font way back at the Washingotn DC DevCon, and stated that people would have to start writing their software to be font size independent. Many people followed those guidelines, and their programs work great now. Others were lazy. I don't see how you could say that ample warning wasn't given for this. -- *-------------------------------------------*---------------------------* |Chris Green - Graphics Software Engineer - chrisg@commodore.COM f | Commodore-Amiga - uunet!cbmvax!chrisg n |My opinions are my own, and do not - killyouridolssonicdeath o |necessarily represent those of my employer.- itstheendoftheworld r *-------------------------------------------*---------------------------d