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Font Switch 1.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By Auld Bastid
Big Bum In A Wee Frame Productions
3rd January 1994
Notice:
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This program is public domain. All PD libraries and general users are
welcome to use and distribute this program as they see fit. However if
you use and like this program then I would appreciate some software or
something - just to make me feel wanted!
This program can also be included on magazine cover disks, but I will
of course expect some form of renumeration. Nothing too fancy mind you.
In any case please ensure that the basic program FSWITCH.ACB and this
document (FSWITCH.TXT) are kept together when distributing this
program.
Disclaimer (Or It's Not My Fault Guv'ner)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This program does what it was designed to do. If you start mucking
around with the code and it does strange things to your system then
'don't blame me.' However if while using this program the system
crashes then once again 'don't blame me.' The program does some brute
jiggery to change the system fonts, the program may - inadvertantly -
crash the system. So ALWAYS save your program before changing fonts on-
the-fly.
Requirements:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The STOS Basic package
Basic usage:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
To get this program operational use a line similar to:
accload "fswitch"
to load it as an STOS accessory or alternatively use:
load "fswitch.acb"
to load as a normal STOS basic program.
What Is It?
~~~~~~~~~~~
I change fonts in my compiler folder quite a lot, for different
purposes. Also while programming for a different - unreadable - font it
was useful to change a font mid programming session without having to
re-boot STOS. And so Font Switch was born. The initial program was very
crude and was in no way user friendly. User vicious more like. A short
article in STOSSER diskzine (Hi Tony) made me realise that other people
could do with this program as well. A few tweeks here and there and I'm
releasing it.
The Menu Bar
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About: Only has two headings telling you 'About' the
~~~~~~ program and me, and the STOSSER diskzine.
File:
~~~~~
Load .MBK Allows you to load MBK files for installation
as a system font or as a CR? font to use as
defaults. This is the file format that the STOS
fonts accessory save out. Normally this file
would be LOADed into STOS as a memory bank.
(See page 48 to 50 in the STOS manual)
Load .CR? This is the file format that STOS uses to load
it's default system fonts. These files are
identical to the MBK files except that the 18
bytes header information is missing. (See page
172 in the STOS manual)
Quit Erm. Exits the program.
Install:
~~~~~~~~
As System #1 This allows you to change the low res system
font with the currently loaded one. Only an
equal sized font can be used where the size is
file length NOT width and/or height.
As System #2 As above but for the Medium Res font.
As System #3 As above but for the High res font.
In Compiler Folder This operation allows you to change the default
fonts in the Compiler folder. Only programs
compiled to GEM will use these default fonts.
Any sized font may be used in this manner,
however care must be taken to ensure that large
fonts do not print past the screen.
In STOS Folder This operation allows you to change the default
fonts in the STOS folder. To see these new
fonts a reboot MUST be performed. Any sized
font may be used in this manner, however care
must be taken to ensure that large fonts do not
print past the screen.
View: In Low, Simply allows you to see the font you are about
~~~~~ Medium & High to install in the relevent resolution.
Obviously if you don't have a high res monitor
you can't see the hig res font in hi res.
(And vice versa)
For further information about STOS font, I reccommend that you read the
article 'Customising STOS: Part 2' in the January issue of STOSSER
diskzine.