Use this software at your own risk. It is provided "as is" and author accepts no reponsibility or liability of any kind for it's use. Your support (monetary, technical, moral, back, and Cubs) will be appreciated and reciprocated. Without such support, any future release will be inferior to it's potential, non-existant, or crippled. © 1991, Patrick F. Clark 2545 30th Avenue Court Moline, IL 61265 (309) 764-0199 BIX: pclark REMARKS Requires 2.04 (and ECS ?) Code runs fine on my 3000, but GT_GetIMsg() dies on my ZKick'ed 1000. Reason unknown. Any idea why? Be sure you have a complete character set specified for System Default Text. It is used to indicate proper character forms. Highly recommend your using Arq, which is included. Try it, you'll like it! The About menu-item makes use of it's ability to handle \n's. Fonts can be retrieved from anywhere, and saved back where they came from. New fonts can only be saved in fonts: directory. Keyboard (as well as buttons) selects character. "Standard Character Set" menu item doesn't enforce such. Just displays fewer buttons. "Grid" menu item will auto deselect for very large characters. I have used 8-color character sets at height of 114. Top two actual-size text lines come and go as space permits. Top line shows the entire set from the character *before* the one you're on, all the way to the end, as line space allows, so you can see the effect of kerning. Second line is some plain text. The "illegal character" character is supplied by the program and cannot be edited. It is not the commonly used rectangle, but a series of vertical lines. The 1.3 default colors are right for the first 4 colors. Didn't try to find out what the remaining default colors are, if indeed they exist. Color fonts are saved with the colors in use at the time. A complex color- map of an existing font can thus be lost and be difficult to re-create. TO DO LIST Drawing tools Don't know how to do bezier etc. Any advice? Save as Color re-map Width/height changes, fixed/proportional change, n-colors change Move bits left/right/up/down Custom screen Program has evolved away from strictly WB fonts, but haven't added Custom Screen yet. You can deal with fonts up to 16-colors by changing WB to that number of colors. Clipboard support Cut/Copy/Paste are internal only. Paste buffer does survive Save/Open/ New, so you can exchange characters that way. Palette change Are "italicize", "embolden", and "underline" useful enough to fool with? Sizing window to minimum practical size and/or user re-size. Allow user-supplied text to be displayed. KNOWN BUGS "Hitch" at first MOUSEMOVE after SELECTDOWN when "drag drawing." A lot of code there, but should be easy to fix. Cut or Paste sometimes clobbers adjacent character. Can't seem to make it happen when I'm looking for it. Sometimes saves larger files than it loads. I know why, but it's a bitch to fix. This is a preliminary release. Don't save over only copy of a font. GOTCHAs Workbench uses a different text texhnique than Intuition. Color fonts have color zero transparent on WB, but opaque on Intuition titlebar. Don't know about console. HELP NEEDED What's the best way to magnify? My way is stupid. Is there any doc on Color Fonts? I worked only with .h file. Be careful. HELP RECEIVED Arq is great. Thank you. Copyright © 1990,91 by Martin Laubach, Peter Wlcek and René Hexel. All rights reserved.