Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: special server mechanism (deemed unnecessary)
Message-ID: <847@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 21:37:51 GMT
References: <8812091659.AA02967@devnull.sun.com> <976@bacchus.dec.com>
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Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <976@bacchus.dec.com> asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente) writes:
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>This could be provided by either expanding the protocol to allow a
>GContext anyplace it allows a Font (as it does in XQueryFont), or having
>some special resource ID to refer to the default font, as someone else
>suggested.

How about having XLoadFont(display, "") return The Default Font?  It's
at least somewhat consistent with XOpenDisplay("") returning the
default display.  I hope we could be guaranteed a few things about this
font.

It would sure be nice if there were a way to write portable code that
displays text without having to scan the list of available fonts.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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