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Use this software at your own risk. It is provided "as is" and author
accepts no reponsibility or liability of any kind for it's use.
Your support (monetary, technical, moral, back, and Cubs) will be appreciated
and reciprocated. Without such support, any future release will be inferior
to it's potential, non-existant, or crippled.
© 1991, Patrick F. Clark
2545 30th Avenue Court
Moline, IL 61265
(309) 764-0199
BIX: pclark
REMARKS
Requires 2.04 (and ECS ?)
Code runs fine on my 3000, but GT_GetIMsg() dies on my ZKick'ed 1000.
Reason unknown. Any idea why?
Be sure you have a complete character set specified for System Default
Text. It is used to indicate proper character forms.
Highly recommend your using Arq, which is included. Try it, you'll like
it! The About menu-item makes use of it's ability to handle \n's.
Fonts can be retrieved from anywhere, and saved back where they came
from. New fonts can only be saved in fonts: directory.
Keyboard (as well as buttons) selects character.
"Standard Character Set" menu item doesn't enforce such. Just displays
fewer buttons.
"Grid" menu item will auto deselect for very large characters.
I have used 8-color character sets at height of 114.
Top two actual-size text lines come and go as space permits. Top line
shows the entire set from the character *before* the one you're on,
all the way to the end, as line space allows, so you can see the effect
of kerning. Second line is some plain text.
The "illegal character" character is supplied by the program and cannot be
edited. It is not the commonly used rectangle, but a series of
vertical lines.
The 1.3 default colors are right for the first 4 colors. Didn't try to
find out what the remaining default colors are, if indeed they exist.
Color fonts are saved with the colors in use at the time. A complex color-
map of an existing font can thus be lost and be difficult to re-create.
TO DO LIST
Drawing tools
Don't know how to do bezier etc. Any advice?
Save as
Color re-map
Width/height changes, fixed/proportional change, n-colors change
Move bits left/right/up/down
Custom screen
Program has evolved away from strictly WB fonts, but haven't added
Custom Screen yet. You can deal with fonts up to 16-colors by changing
WB to that number of colors.
Clipboard support
Cut/Copy/Paste are internal only. Paste buffer does survive Save/Open/
New, so you can exchange characters that way.
Palette change
Are "italicize", "embolden", and "underline" useful enough to fool with?
Sizing window to minimum practical size and/or user re-size.
Allow user-supplied text to be displayed.
KNOWN BUGS
"Hitch" at first MOUSEMOVE after SELECTDOWN when "drag drawing." A lot of
code there, but should be easy to fix.
Cut or Paste sometimes clobbers adjacent character. Can't seem to make it
happen when I'm looking for it.
Sometimes saves larger files than it loads. I know why, but it's a bitch
to fix.
This is a preliminary release. Don't save over only copy of a font.
GOTCHAs
Workbench uses a different text texhnique than Intuition. Color fonts have
color zero transparent on WB, but opaque on Intuition titlebar. Don't know
about console.
HELP NEEDED
What's the best way to magnify? My way is stupid.
Is there any doc on Color Fonts? I worked only with .h file. Be careful.
HELP RECEIVED
Arq is great. Thank you. Copyright © 1990,91 by Martin Laubach, Peter
Wlcek and René Hexel. All rights reserved.