Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!eos!shelby!polya!Feanor!jwl From: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: SetFont (was Re: wp crashing) Summary: Fixed in 1.4?? Message-ID: <9573@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 30 May 89 21:52:25 GMT References: <18178@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> <6981@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Organization: Who, *me*, organized?? Lines: 31 In article <6981@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: [stuff deleted] > Some programs don't adjust well to any font other than topaz >8, some will work fine with any 8x8 font but fail with larger fonts (like >WorkBench), some work fine with any fixed font but fail with proportional >fonts (like CON:). There's nothing SetFont can do about this; a >proper program >would check the font it's inheriting from the screen or window, and specify a >known replacement if it can't use the given font, but I don't think Commodore >has ever really given out guidelines on this, as the main system as of 1.3 >wasn't really expecting variable fonts at the system level. >Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" All of this makes me wonder: what degree of flexibility will 1.4 allow us in the choice of fonts available? I mean, will I be able to use proportional fonts in CON:? Will there be a means to replace Topaz (say, from Preferences, not from FastFonts)? Will it be easier to use larger fonts (whether proportional or not) in more applications? How will programs have to change to take advantage of any changes in the way fonts are handled in 1.4? I hope that SetFont, FastFonts, and the like are not necessary in 1.4; the system should really support this in a very easy and standard fashion. Then again, there's a lot I'm hoping for in 1.4, and from what I've seen on BIX, it looks like CBM's going to do a great job. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Lockhart jwl@feanor.stanford.edu BIX: jlockhart