Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!fauern!immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!mlelstv
From: mlelstv@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SetFont (was Re: wp crashing)
Message-ID: <267@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 23 May 89 12:27:32 GMT
References: <8905081520.AA11220@jade.berkeley.edu> <705@solaria.csun.edu> <18030@cisunx.UUCP> <11767@well.UUCP>
Organization: IMMD IV, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
Lines: 16

shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:

>Can anyone clarify under what circumstances SetFont will work correctly,
>and set my mind at ease (or not)?  Thanx.
>-- 

Since intuition (V1.2) keeps track of window fonts only, you can only
set fonts of windows, not screen fonts.

The way FastFonts works is, to swap the contents of two font structures,
actually redefining the bitmap for the fonts, i.e. you use the same font
but it looks like another font.

				Michael van Elst

E-mail: UUCP: ...uunet!unido!fauern!immd4!mlelstv