This is an example of the fun you can have writing codecs. This is a QuickTime codec ( with sources ) for compressing black and white pictures into the glyphs of your favourite font.
It shows you how simple a codec can be, and how to do source level debugging of a codec with Think C, and how to build a codec from MPW.
The files included are:
CodecTestMain.c - a simple application for trying out codecs with still images
DrawTextComponent.c - the component wrapper for the drawtext codec
DrawTextCompress.c - the compressor part of the codec
DrawTextDecompress.c - the decompressor part of the codec
DrawTextCodec.h - include file for codec
DrawTextCodec.r - rez description file for making the codec
DrawTextCodec.make - MPW Makefile for building the codec
DrawTextCodec - the built codec file - drop in your system folder and reboot ( or see reinstaller below )
CourierCodec - CodecTestMain application with built-in codec ( installed by app ) just double click and see what the codec can do.
DrawTextCodecπ - Think C 5.0 Project for CourierCodec application - use this to see how to do source level debugging of codecs
Reinstaller - Application which lets you reinstall codecs ( and other components ) without rebooting