Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Bitmapped font scaling? AmigaMail! Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 06:46:47 GMT References: <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 45 In article <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: >'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. > There's a lot more than INFO that doesn't multitask under 2.0. When you open a drawer with a bunch of files in it, the workbench goes away for as long as it takes to put up all the icons. On my A3000, if I have the HDInstall program low-level formatting a hard drive (or doing any "long" disk operation), I can stick a floppy in the drive and the workbench doesn't even recognize it until the hard disk operation is complete. In fact, HDToolBox is a GIANT step down from FAAASTPREP from GVP, which is excellent. HDToolBox has one of the most "graceful" exits I have ever seen: "Click here to Reboot your machine" :) >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. ;-) > You do indeed get a font of the size you request, but it looks pretty ugly. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************