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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Universal Font Selector (was Re: Online Help)
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 20:05:26 -0600
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-
- Hello Chris,
-
- >What you wrote:
- >> You can change the font by editing the st-guide.inf file or by installing
- >> UFSL (Universal Font Selector).
- >
- >What interface(s) does this Universal Font Selector provide for the
- >programmer? Is it PD? SW? Does it work well, eat tonnes of RAM,
- >crash your system, violate memory protection, etc etc?
- >
- >What programs use it currently (and do they all provide a program-specific
- >font-selector if UFSL is not installed)?
-
- The UFSL is free; it is an AUTO folder program that uses very little
- memory and provides a nice GEM font-selector to any program. It does
- not crash the system (to my knowledge) or do any other wiird things.
- It -could- violate memory protection if you told it to do so (by
- passing it a string that is in protected memory) but it will not do
- it by itself.
-
- There is a better font-selector available, 100% compatible with UFSL.
- This one is by Holger Weets (the author of ST-Guide) and it uses less
- memory and provides a better font-selector. If you want either of these,
- contact me and I will send them to you. They are very small. I believe
- I still have them both.
-
- Supporting them from my programs is a trick I have not learned yet; it
- involves using the cookie jar to get a pointer to a structure containing
- pointers to functions... sort of. :)
-
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