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From: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Font menu's
Message-ID: <10176@claris.com>
Date: 19 May 89 00:57:35 GMT
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Reply-To: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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>>I have a short question to a Claris person.  I have been playing with
>>MW II and noticed that somehow it manages to put together a Font Menu
>>with all the font-names in their REAL font.  Suitcase II does this as
>>well, but it takes it forever to construct the menu.  MW II seems to be
>>able to do this in no time flat.  Can someone explain how?

The way we got the blazing speed on the Claris font menu in MacWrite II
by building it only when we need to.  If you look in your System Folder, 
you'll find a document named 'Claris Fonts'.  That file is used to store the 
font menu data between launchings of Claris applications.  Other Claris 
applications that will create or use this Fonts file are MacDraw II v1.1 and 
MacProject II v2.0.  On launch, we check to see if the fonts in the system 
still match those in our file, update the file if necessary, and continue.

Tip: You can create a folder named 'Claris' inside your system folder.
MacWrite II, MacDraw II v1.1, and MacProject II v2.0 will find the 'Claris Fonts', Dictionaries, and application Help and default stationary files if 
they're in this folder.

Brendan

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