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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
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I Was wondering if any other programmers out there could help me ...
I trying to attach a custom font to my on custom screen through
intuition. To do this I have to give a pointer to a font in the
NewScreen Structure. The problem is getting the pointer.
The font I want to use is in the FONTS: directory. As far as I could
work out from the Manual's this is a fragment of the code to get this
pointer:
OpenDiskFont =-30
;Open the Diskfont.library and save d0->diskbase
move.l diskbase,a6
move.l TextAttr,a0
jsr OpenDiskfont(a6)
move.l d0,fontbase
;Close the Diskfont.library
rts
TextAttr:
dc.l fontname
dc.w 8
dc.b 0
dc.b 0
fontname: dc.b 'sample.font',0
even
END
After assembling this and executing it through a Debugger I find that
when it executes the jsr OpenDiskfont call it takes approx. 40 secs
with NO disk access. At the end of this time I get 0 back in D0 which
according to intuition means that it could'nt find the font.
Has anyone else managed to get this to work ???? I went through the C
source code to SetFont but as far as I can see I've everything correct.
Thanks in advice for the help.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3787.1 | try this | DEMOAX::MCKENDRY | Nasty, Brutish, and Short | Mon May 21 1990 13:54 | 14 |
This is a guess, but I'd suggest changing
"move.l TextAttr,a0"
to
"lea TextAttr,a0" .
I think you'll find that after "move.l TextAttr,a0", a0 contains
the address of your string "fontname," not the address of your
TextAttr structure. And I suspect the OpenDiskfont routine would
rather have the structure. "lea" will load a0 with the structure
address.
Of course, I could be wrong.
-John
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| 3787.2 | Boy, am I Stupid!! | GIDDAY::MORAN | I'm not bad-I'm just drawn that way! | Tue May 22 1990 22:49 | 10 |
You are totally 100% right!!
Silly me, would you believe that I really meant lea??
Now for the next challange - Alt Keymaps in a string gadget.
Thanks for the help.
Shaun.
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