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In <27845c$ete@access.digex.net> kbennett@access.digex.net (Keith R. Bennett) writes:

>I will be porting a program from DOS to OS/2, and need to implement
>some graphics drawing functions.  For example, I need to call a
>function that will draw a rectangle, etc.

>Can I use PM to do that?  I *don't* want my application to be event
>driven in what I understand is the usual PM sense.  That is, I don't 
>want the graphical objects to get any messages.  I just want to be
>able to call primitive graphic functions.  Can I do this?

Yes and no.  Your window will ALWAYS receive messages but you can always
ignore them.

>Also, regarding text fonts, are they scaled on the fly?  If so, does
>the processor have to calculate each character as it's being displayed?
>(This would seem a little dumb.)  Or is there some kind of font
>cache?

The Adobe Font Manager takes care of scalable fonts, which are represented
by a serious of lines, fillets, etc..  When you scale them, they simply
scale the relative coordinates and voila.

Cheers,
Q
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