Re: Opening a diskfont??

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From: Brian Jackson
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 17:01

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In article <706@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>Question to those with wisdom:
>Could it be that OpenDiskFont() is intelligent enough to look into
>RAM first, without explicitly calling OpenFont()? Or that a
>duplicate font gets loaded over an already existing one in RAM?

From the 1.3/2.0 autodocs:

   NAME
       OpenDiskFont - load and get a pointer to a disk font.

   FUNCTION
       This function finds the font with the specified textAttr on
       disk, loads it into memory, and returns a pointer to the font
       that can be used in subsequent SetFont and CloseFont calls.
       It is important to match this call with a corresponding
       CloseFont call for effective management of font memory.


>>>>   If the font is already in memory, the copy in memory is used. <<<<
>>>>   The disk copy is not reloaded.                                <<<<

bj

>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel

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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Opening a diskfont??
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:01:57 GMT
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