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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- HELP RECEIVED
- Arq is great. Thank you. Copyright ⌐ 1990,91 by Martin Laubach, Peter
- Wlcek and RenΘ Hexel. All rights reserved.
-