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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fonts on window (consoles)_
Message-ID: <50257@sun.uucp>
Date: 20 Apr 88 23:27:13 GMT
References: <458@viscous>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Keywords: diskfont changes on console windows

In article <458@viscous> brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes:
>I assume this is the correct newsgroup....

none better.

>I am trying to write a program which will change the fonts on 
>the console device of a CLI process.   I am doing this to learn,
>so getting a binary would be little help.   

Your attempts were good but you are missing a critical piece of 
information. Specifically, the window that the console device is
using. There is a program that Carolyn Scheppner wrote called
ConsPackets.c that is on a Fish disk as well as on BIX and possibly
in the source archives on purdue. This program shows you how to send
a packet to the console.device and have it return a ConUnit structure
which has in it a pointer to a window. Set _that_ windows font to 
the one you want and <poof> the font will change on the console of
that CLI process. You might also want to type ^[c to clear the screen
to keep the console from being fragged by two different fonts on the
screen. 

>I have gotten the font for the title bar to change (looks strange in
>emerald 12! )

Another thing to consider is that the console device does not handle
proportional fonts very well at all. The problems occur when you 
try to 'erase' characters and such.


--Chuck McManis
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