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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Bitmapped font scaling?  AmigaMail!
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Date: 27 Jun 91 23:24:37 GMT
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In article <22729@cbmvax.commodore.com> johno@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Orr - CATS) writes:
>The AslRequest() functions return a zero if the user clicked "Cancel"
>or if the function failed for some reason.

Okay, I got that.  Unfortunately, I seem to have old includes, so... What
does AslRequest() return when successful (for a Font requester, that is)?

>The user can't abort the *generation* of a font because asl.library is

True, but the application has the ability to add callbacks so that that
sort of facility could be provided. IE, diskfont ain't never called.

At least, that's the impression the AutoDocs left me with yesterday.
I could just be on 2.0 steroids. :)

>Most of the details you are asking about have to do with the
>diskfont.library and graphics.library.  

Okay, I mailed you some possibilities fo AmigaMail, here's an improvement.
One of the things I don't like about the Mac documentation is that seemingly
related topics are divided according to the internal system paradigm.
Wonderful, except that initially you aren't familiar with it.  While we're
still in the early stages with 2.0, can I ask a favor?

If we are talking about *fonts*, then anything to do with fonts ought to
be discussed, regardless of the library those functions are in.  In fact,
if we deal with XXX, then XXX ought to be discussed in all of its flavors.

E.G.  Let's say we talk about gadgets.  Peter Cherna writes a wonderful 
article about gadtools.  Except, how do I figure out whether or not to use
boopsi, struct Gadget *, etc?  

Another example might be ASL file-requester paired up with file pattern
matching.  IE. when to use a command interface, when to use a graphic
interface.

All sorts of examples, except I feel I'm rambling now. :)

>--John


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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