Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DPaint II text font selection Message-ID: <5929@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 26 Aug 88 09:00:14 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 48 jxc@rayssdb.ray.com (Jeffrey J. Clesius) writes: >Does anyone know of any way to get DPaint II to load in fonts from a new >font directory that is less trouble than having to exit and restart DPaint? > >I have disks with various fonts in them and I'd like to have them all >available, at least on a per-disk basis! It's bad enough not being able >to load in more fonts than the Intuition menu system can handle; at least >DPaint should being able to reload fonts to make things less restrictive! > >Any hints? > A hint? Well how about a real answer! ;-) There's an undocumented Deluxe Paint "feature".... load in your fonts as usual, take a look at the font menu. buncha names, right? Now mouse over to the far left hand menu and select "screen format." A screen pops up where you can change your screen config (res, colors, etc.). Just select the same one that you're already using. Now Dpaint's main screen comes back up. Now mouse over and look at your fonts menu again... Voila! It's EMPTY!! Now the trick is - you don't have to quit and re-run Dpaint II to load in fonts from another disk. When you need fonts from somewhere else, just flip the Dpaint II screen to the back, use your CLI and reASSIGN FONTS: to wherever you want them to come from, flip back to Dpaint II, do the "screen format" selection, back to the Dpaint screen and "load fonts" again. They'll load in from wherever you've just assigned FONTS: to. By the way, scuttlebut has it that there's a "quiet upgrade" to Dpaint II that EA whipped up a while back - it fixes the font menu so the menu won't crash the program if you target a font directory with a zillion font names in it. the menu just fills up till it's as tall as Dpaint's window but doesn't blow a hole in the bottom of the window and crash the program. You might want to call EA and ask how to get this version. And, dear developer type people, PLEASE don't cripple your otherwise excellent artist-type software by putting lame pull down font menus in them. Some of us artist-types have HUGE font directories and we like to be able to use them in a nice scrolling font requester like ProWrite 2.0 has (it can handle 255 fonts at once!). Thank You. Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com <---open Push down while turning close tightly--->