On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:36:55PM -0700, Adam McDaniel wrote:
> Before you ask why I would want to do anything of the sort, we're
> actually using prc-tools for a development environment and don't have
> the conveience of constructor to create the proper resource into the
> prc itself.
Just so that we're clear :-), I'll note that prc-tools has no interest
in font resources of any description. I guess what you mean is that
you are using PilRC and it doesn't, as yet, know about FontTypeV2 'nfnt'
resources.
> I could probably figure out how to hack this in myself, but I'm just
> wondering if anyone has any warnings or advice that I should consider
> before attempting to do so...
Sounds like a great opportunity for you to contribute :-).
> I know that the structures have a likelihood of changing within
> future versions, but is there anything else that I should really worry
> about in doing this?
The structures in memory at run-time shouldn't be accessed, but the
'NFNT' and 'nfnt' resource formats are (as of the 5.0 documentation)
documented in the Reference and therefore not subject to change -- or,
at least, the current formats will continue to be supported. It would
have to be that way, of course, because those resources will be burnt
into people's applications and will thus become a binary compatibility
issue.
John
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