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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Font & window questions
Message-ID: <1542@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 11:11:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 11:11:15 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 06:56:11 EST
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Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8703120319.AA03253@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:
$I recently discovered some holes in my understanding of the Amiga; answers
$to these questions will be appreciated.
$1) I used "setfont" to change my CLI font, and this worked fine. Unfortunately
$the font change does not carry over to the vt100 screen. How can I change
$the font for other programs like this? (The setfont in question came from
$trantor archives, and was posted in October)

Programs can specify a specific font they wish to use, and if they do this,
it might not be the same font as you specified for CLIs.  The setfont command
simply changes the "default" font in the Amiga.  That is, the font a program
will use if it does not specifically specify one.  Since VT100 does
specify topaz/8, it won't use whatever you've set the CLI (default) to.

$2) It occurred to me that it would be nice to have windows on top of
$arbitrary screens, like putting a clock on top of the screen used by vt100.
$I haven't found a way to do this, and I suspect that this shows that there
$is something fundemental about windows and screens that I don't understand.
$		Doug Merritt		ucbvax!ingres!hatcher

When a program opens a window, it must specify which screen that window
should appear on.  Either Workbench's, or a program's custom one, such as
the one VT100 uses for example.  Since the clock program (as an example)
is not aware of the screen that VT100 has opened, it is not able to open
the window in which the clock is displayed on the vt100 screen.  It (the
clock program) specifies that its window should appear on the Workbench
screen.

	Hope this helps,
		Paul Higginbottom