| From: | Tony Rolfe |
| Date: | 29 Aug 2001 at 02:15:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Windows and fonts and stuff like that. |
On 28 Aug 2001, at 9:29, Nick Clover wrote:
> Hello Gill
>
> On 28-Aug-01, you wrote:
>
>
>
> > When Window 0 is active, *rp\Font\tf_XSize is 11 (which is correct)
> > When Window 1 is active, *rp\Font\tf_XSize is 8 (which aint!)
>
> > Anybody got any ideas why this should be so?
>
> Have you specifically told window 1 to use the same font as window 0?
Hmm, I don't think so. I thought that a window took the screen's
font by default....
>
> eg. windowfont 0, just after the window is opened. Using 'Use
> IntuiFont 0' won't work with all windows...
.... although I could be wrong
>
> but It seems to me to be a waste of time creating a function for a 1
> line command. Just do it directly with:
>
> rp.l=RastPort(0);just after you open window 0
>
> result.l=TextLength_(rp,&text$,Peek.l(&text$)-4)
I was doing a very bodgy thing to get the text length a long time
ago, before I discovered TextLength_ so I created a function then.
When I discovered how to do it properly, I simply had to change the
function. Used too many places to fix now :-(
Thanks for the help
Tony Rolfe
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