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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Bitmapped font scaling?  AmigaMail!
Message-ID: <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:38:39 GMT
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'ello!

Question:  In 2.0 why doesn't the information window (from the drop-down
menu under Icon on the Workbench) multitask?  It seems to me that this
would be quite natural.  I thought one of the main features of the 
revised Workbench under AmigaDOS 2.0 was to add more multitasking.  

On another note.  I was reading the article in AmigaMail about the
asl.library.  Did anyone notice besides myself that, according to the
article, if a font requestor is created the user can enter the point
size regardless of whether that font point size existed.  The implication 
was that the font would be scaled...and this was the bitmapped fonts!  
Is this true, or did I misinterpet the article?  If it is true, is it
'correct' for a requestor to do any processing?  It seems to me that
while on the surface this may seem to be great, it may be less than
wonderful if the scaling can't be aborted in the case of a bad entry.

If it is true...why is this not implemented in the font preferences
program?

I guess before debating the wonders of this, I ought to see if I 
understood what I read. ;-)

Enough questions for now... I await your answers.

Thanks in advance.

-mark=
manes@vger.nsu.edu