Re: [MiNT] Font selector Library and redraw messages

["J. F. Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

Hello,

On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Lonny Pursell wrote:

> My advice would be to use a different font protocol, like the one
> Thing Desktop supports. I have used that protocol in 2 apps and it
> works quite nicely, you can even drag and drop fonts.  See the Thing
> docs for details.

I used the Font selector library because, since it's in the GEMlib, I 
thought it was the norm (part of the AES, in a way). Also, it's more 
advanced than the one from Thing and not everyone uses Thing. As for 
TeraDesk, it's font selector is rather basic and what about Jinnee? 
Doesn't Jinnee call the AES font selector?

> The wdialog calls in XaAES are for backward compatibility and I think
> Ozk would agree, please don't write new apps and use these old
> wdialog calls. ;o)

So, there is no "official" font selector in AES and one has to use an 
external protocol? I have nothing against this, I just want to be sure 
I'm making the good choices.

Anyway, I quite like the MagiC/Wdialog font selector. Nevertheless, I'll 
have a look at the Thing doc.

JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire