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From: acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New font: Pearl
Message-ID: <5959@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 19:18:26 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.5959
Posted: Sun Mar 22 19:18:26 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Mar-87 01:57:12 EST
References: <1166@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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Keywords: font text topaz
Summary: Remember SetFont?

In article <1166@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) 
provides a a font that I'm really fond of.  I dragged out the ol' SetFont
program and began trying to hack it up so that it would set the default
font in my Screen so that future windows would automatically use the new
font (I'm *not* using MWB or anything like that).  Well, needless to say I
wasn't very successful.  Yes, I got PUBLIC memory for TextAttr and the font
name and I plugged the address of that TextAttr into the Screen structure
but it didn't work at all -- the next window that I open has *nothing* in
it -- nada, no borders nor nuttin'.  Anybody got any other ideas of how to
go about coercing Intuition to change its idea of what the default font is
(or is that just simply not possible)?

Another thing that I noticed is that the SetFont call in SetFont is *not*
returning zero -- ever.  I thought that maybe it was because I had some
other already open windows and screens so I closed them all and it's still
returning non-zero (even tried re-booting and killing my startup then
immediately running the program to no avail).
Looks like SetFont may be returning a pointer to a Window
but I'm not too sure.  What I was gonna do was issue an AddFont after I
knew the SetFont was successful so that other pgms that wanna use the same
font will use the in-core copy.  The long and short of this paragraph is
that I have 2 further questions:
   *  Why does the SetFont fail?
   *  Is AddFont the right thing to do?
Please e-mail responses to me and I'll summarize.

Thanks.
-- 
Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.amdahl.com <=> ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,seismo}!amdahl!acs

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