CompuServe Messages

A few blue-sky, online ideas: A better system for fonts, for on-screen representations, and methods of substitution for output to bitmap printers and PostScript printers. A way to support arbitrary densities for bitmap printers, so the output looks better on 24 pin printers. Something like QuickDraw would be great. At least a text description of the minimum elements of a file requester, of a font requester. I'm not sure how the Mac does file requesters like this, is it just one call, or are you given some freedom in setting up the gadget positions. Something like ResEdit, a system for letting the users adjust the imagery for gadgets of an application. Something like this could benefit both end-users and programmers, who have had to rely on cumbersome things like Power Windows to generate menus. Icons for everything on the Workbench the user needs to get at, or at least some kind of mover utility to move fonts, libraries, and drivers. Something like Browser, to get a text-only description of files on the Workbench. I think I'll start writing these up…