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Fonts in PW 3.0

    09-May-90 14:41:42
Sb: #103608-Fonts in PW 3.0
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: New Horizons Software 76004,2021
Um…. um…. gee. We don't do either one, and we get the functionality the user desires. Here's what we do: We have a menu action where the current fonts information for OUR program is flushed – nothing else. Then the user can insert a new disk named "FONT" and he has an entirely new library of fonts available. Then next time he asks for a particular font, we go get it. If he's HD based, he can reassign on his own. The trick for us was to let go of the current font data. For your application, that might get a little rough, as you probably have multiple fonts open at one time. You could cache them, though. I think. I'm used to thinking in terms of one font open at a time. Ben Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S