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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Font help needed
Message-ID: <2287@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 16:25:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: amiga.2287
References: <62300001@hobbiton>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
Lines: 32
Summary: Font name *is* case sensitive, please use the right name

In article <62300001@hobbiton> tran@hobbiton.prime.com writes:
>My problem comes when I try to load in a disk font, "DIAMOND.20".  Here are
>the steps I perform:
>
>  1) Set up the TextAttr structure ("DIAMOND.FONT",20,{},{}).

Note that font name should be "diamond.font".  It turns out that, due to a
side effect of implementation, "DIAMOND.FONT" will currently get you a font
with the diskfont.library, but with the unwholesome caveats implied by that
implementation:
1.  The font will first be looked for on the graphics font list.  That
    search uses FindName, and is thus case sensitive.
2.  If the font is not found, it will be read it in from disk using the
    font name to find the file "FONTS:DIAMOND.FONT".  Note that any
    case of "diaMoND.FoNT" will work, because file names are case insensitive.
3.  That font will be added to the font list with the name (actually the
    tail of the path name) you specified in the TextAttr structure.  This
    means your all-caps name will be used.
Now someone else comes along, performs an AvailFonts to find out what
fonts are available, and discovers that there is a "DIAMOND.FONT" in the
memory font list, and a "diamond.font" on the disk.  An attempt to load
"diamond.font" will succeed, it just uses two font images where one was
sufficient.  Meanwhile, what name(s) should the application put in the menu?

Summary (again): Font name *is* case sensitive, please use the right name

- Kodiak
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