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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Font loading problem
Message-ID: <2805@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 18:16:10 GMT
References: <3704@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <3704@polya.Stanford.EDU> aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
)---
)Here's what I'm trying to do: Load a font from a subdirectory of the
)directory where my executable is.

Open the font with:
    ta.ta_Name = "myapp:fontdir/bosco.font";
    ta.ta_YSize = 11;
    ...
    OpenDiskFont(&ta);

Now the tricky part.
    Under 1.2 (V33) and earlier diskfont.library, the font contents file
    name is opened relative to FONTS:, so it needed to be like
    "myapp:fontdir/bosco/11".

    Under 1.3 (V34) and later diskfont.library, the font contents file
    name is opened relative to the directory containing the font contents
    file, so it can be like "bosco/11", which is just like fonts you find
    in the FONTS: drawer.

    So, since you cannot ensure that the user has 1.3 (RSN :-)), you
    probably want to have an entry like the first one.  See
    libraries/diskfont.h for the form of the font contents file.

- Kodiak
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