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Re: XView application without olcursor?

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From: der Mouse
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 1990 07:55
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>>> This is a valid request for change--if the toolkit cannot find the
>>> OpenLook fonts, it loads in bitmap data and uses that instead.  The
>>> only problem we would have with this is increasing the library size.
>>I thought shared libraries eliminated the problems associated with
>>growing a library, at least by small amounts (like this).

> You still increase size to handle two cases for rendering.  A size
> increase is a size increase whether you have shared libraries or not.

Well yes, but a size increase of 2K (say) would likely be tolerable
whereas a size increase of 2K * number-of-XView-binaries probably would
not.

					der Mouse

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