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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 14:30, Pridham, Paul wrote:
> On a somewhat related topic... what are the odds that we could get a
> "load_font()" function for fonts (instead of needing to embed them in
> a datafile)? I imagine that the font loading code could simply be
> moved out of the grabber and into Allegro.
I think the main objection to this idea is that fonts are processed
quite a bit before loading. I think Allegro can load BIOS format fonts
through the grabber, although I don't know of any tool which creates
them, but I guess most people load them through BITMAPs: a process
which is (relatively) slow and could fail.
But if you can think of
a) a compelling reason not to use datafiles (remember you can use
dat2s/c to link a font straight into your application, with no datafile
involved in the end product), and
b) some decent way of supporting loading fonts on the fly (we don't
really like the bitmap approach),
then maybe some code would magically be produced :-)
Bye for now,
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Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
(GnuPG 04A646EA) http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/
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