#Genefont damaged?
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Rob,
I've downloaded Genefont, and am having a few problems. When I try
to use the font after running ColorText, it appears mostly as garbage (a
pattern of short horizontal lines, different for each "letter"), except that
one can see a T,U,A,G, or C in amongst it if the appropriate (upper case) key
has been pressed. If I use the font *without* ColorText, it appears fine (but,
of course, monochrome), except that "G" prints a space. I thought that it may
have been a problem between Colortext and 1.3, so I re-Kickstarted to 1.2. No
change. I also booted a 1.3 Workbench after a 1.2 Kickstart (to sorta emulate
a 2000 running 1.3 without the new ROMs). Again no different.
More details: The T and U appear as color 1, C and G as color 2, and A as
color 3. The garbage is color 4 (so that if I run a 4-color screen the only
letters that appear are the 5 differently colored ones). The color numbers, by
the way, I'm assuming from the DPaint palette, with 0 at upper left, 1 below
it, etc. Colortext seems to run OK, in that it gives me its little message.
I've also tried it after running NoFastMem.
I don't know if the problem is with the font itself or with the Colortext
wedge, and if you have any ideas I'd be glad to hear them.
I've been using mostly DPaint to test this out, but also downloaded Access
and tried the fonts in that, with no greater success. Is it possible that the
font got munged somewhere between your computer and mine, or is it something
that I'm not doing right?
I can't think of anything more to try at the moment, except to bring it in
to work and try it on "my" 2000 there. I'll do that tomorrow, but hold out no
great hopes. So close, so close……
We'll get there yet.
…wjas {;-O>
#$#%….there are two "colortext" files, one from Andy Finkel (freely
distributable for non-commercial purposes) which I sent you and another
copyrighted by Interactive. I created the font with the copyrighted version. I
tested 'em both and Finkel's colortext behaves as you described while
Interactive's works. Since Finkel said his version will be "standard" with
WB1.4, I assume Interactive will update their program.
Meanwhile, I'll call Interactive tomorrow and beg them to let me send you their
"Colortext", which is relly just a run-time module. Will let you know the
results. Alternatively, is they say no, you could buy Calligrapher V1.05 and
make all the colored fonts you want. If neither of those is acceptable, I'll
bite Finkel on the throat during the next full moon.
If you think DNA/RNA is nifty with color, you should see protein sequencing!!
Sorry for misleading you, Rob.
Ah. Well, at least that explains the problems I was having. I imagine
that Interactive may be a little hesitant to let out their copywritten
material. Maybe if we could make it more of a loan, with me swearing to
destroy all copies once I've shown Mitch that it works. Then, if he's
interested, he'll have to go out and buy Calligrapher ;-). And an Amiga! I
personally don't have any need for coloured fonts at the moment, and $120 is a
bit much to spend just to demonstrate an idea. I may be able to borrow a copy
of Calligrapher from somewhere. Once I have it working, it'll only take a few
minutes to show the guy that it *will* do what he wants.
The next full moon is the 21st, but don't bite Andy just yet (unless you
really want to!).
You mentioned protein sequences. What is it that *you* do for a living?
Using the one-letter codes? 20 colours! Would do wonders for the eyes after a
long day. Who needs drugs? Just look at a good long protein sequence,
especially if the sequence was put through that little program that converted
it to music.
Thanks for all your help.
…wjas {;-O>