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Short: Disk cache of available fonts, faster reqs
Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
Type: text/font
Version: 1.5.1
Requires: diskfont.library 39.3
This is a patch to the 39.3 (3.1) version of the diskfont.library. It adds a
disk caching mechanism to the library which keeps the list of available
fonts. If you have a huge number of fonts (I have approx. 300!), the creation
of the (first, usually uncached) font requester gets much faster: Reading the
cache takes usually not more than two seconds, parsing the directory tree
however used to take half a minute on my system.
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New in 1.5.1:
- Not a new release of the cache program, but of the guide. I really forgot
to add a "Credits" section. Ooops! Sorry, folks!
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New in 1.5:
- The 1.4 version had a bug that prevented writing the cache for programs
requesting TTextAttrs instead of TextAttrs, i.e. cache types 10002. Added
semaphore protection. Added a check for a file ".nocache" in "_bullet" to
avoid caching a directory.
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New in 1.4:
- Fixed another problem with multiassigns. It was not correctly checked
whether the cache is really up to date for all directories in a possible
multiassign.
- Due to code rearrangement, lesser calls to AvailFonts() will suffer now.
This might help to fix some strange AMOS font functions. Check the guide for
details! Thans to Nils Görs for the hint.
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New in 1.3:
- Fixed a long standing problem with assign-added font directories which are
now respected by the cache. Thanks to Dirk Neubauer for the hints.
- Fixed a bug in the 1.2 code that wrote invalid caches from time to time.
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New in 1.2:
- Fixed a conflict with BetterOpenLibs. The FontCache is now much more
system conformal, ROM fonts or scaled fonts do not longer enter the
cache list.
- The font cache is again a bit smaller, and fewer cache files are
needed.
So long,
Thomas (September 1998)