On 2002-12-03, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, same as what Tom said about another issue short time ago: > You are overdoing things!
I think, you are overinterpreting my comments. ;-) I just try to remain as accurate as possible, whilst apparently some prefer to skip over potential problems. The original question (in a private discussion thread) was a more general one, it was not related to the actual implementation. Since we can use .CPI files from various sources already (which do have variations in the shapes), these are no new problems, but apparently we all could live well with these issues when they occured. So, it is probably wise to /know/ about them (so that the character definitions within one .CPI file are based on the same font - not necessarily the case, when existing .CPI files are patched rather than created from scratch), and certainly this had to be part of a conscientious answer to the original question, but nevertheless alternative typefaces such as "THIN", "LCD", etc. do already exist. There's no problem with that. I never said anything to the contrary. > - Dos programs hardly ever use graphics mode to draw text Correct (because it's very slow), but sometimes they do. It depends on what video mode the user selects, not - usually - the program. > - Then will not read text from the screen using the BIOS in such cases How do you know this? It's certainly unlikely to happen, because the conditions are unlikely. But just as well, it's possible, hence it must be taken into account first. > - If they do, being unable to read characters that are left over from > before a font change after that font change is a very exotic error > scenario. Most error scenarios are not obvious, otherwise they would have been taken into account in the first place. ;-) Greetings, Matthias -- <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org "Programs are poems for computers." ---------- list options/archives/etc.: http://www.topica.com/lists/fd-dev unsubscribe: send blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Rv5.bbRv4l.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
