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- From: idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: BBC Fonts
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:17:33 GMT
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- In article <1g9q9tINNn93@oak4.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- |> How can you load a set of BBC Fonts (say in your boot sequence)
- |> without getting a teak window saying 'Press SPACE or press a mouse
- |> button...'? (or without a task window at all).
- |>
- |> The only way I've managed it so far is to pass the font file I want to
- |> load to a Basic prorgram which starts up as a wimp task, *PRINTs the
- |> font file, then closes itself down as a wimp task and quits - all very
- |> messy.
- |>
-
- The reason you cannot do this is of course the way that fonts are loaded.
- The way you define fonts is to send stuff to the VDU stream, and any task
- which does this makes the desktop decide that it wants to output (not
- unreasonable since it has just generated some output...) so it gives it
- a window in which to do this. So the only approach is that which you
- suggest above.
-
- Ian Griffiths
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