🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1g9q9tINNn93@oak4.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
|> How can you load a set of BBC Fonts (say in your boot sequence)
|> without getting a teak window saying 'Press SPACE or press a mouse
|> button...'? (or without a task window at all).
|> 
|> The only way I've managed it so far is to pass the font file I want to
|> load to a Basic prorgram which starts up as a wimp task, *PRINTs the
|> font file, then closes itself down as a wimp task and quits - all very
|> messy.
|> 

The reason you cannot do this is of course the way that fonts are loaded.
The way you define fonts is to send stuff to the VDU stream, and any task
which does this makes the desktop decide that it wants to output (not
unreasonable since it has just generated some output...) so it gives it
a window in which to do this.  So the only approach is that which you
suggest above.

Ian Griffiths