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From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: Universal Font Selector (was Re: Online Help)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 20:05:26 -0600
Precedence: bulk
Hello Chris,
>What you wrote:
>> You can change the font by editing the st-guide.inf file or by installing
>> UFSL (Universal Font Selector).
>
>What interface(s) does this Universal Font Selector provide for the
>programmer? Is it PD? SW? Does it work well, eat tonnes of RAM,
>crash your system, violate memory protection, etc etc?
>
>What programs use it currently (and do they all provide a program-specific
>font-selector if UFSL is not installed)?
The UFSL is free; it is an AUTO folder program that uses very little
memory and provides a nice GEM font-selector to any program. It does
not crash the system (to my knowledge) or do any other wiird things.
It -could- violate memory protection if you told it to do so (by
passing it a string that is in protected memory) but it will not do
it by itself.
There is a better font-selector available, 100% compatible with UFSL.
This one is by Holger Weets (the author of ST-Guide) and it uses less
memory and provides a better font-selector. If you want either of these,
contact me and I will send them to you. They are very small. I believe
I still have them both.
Supporting them from my programs is a trick I have not learned yet; it
involves using the cookie jar to get a pointer to a structure containing
pointers to functions... sort of. :)
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