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ST Help needed!!!

#997
From: Brian Totty
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1986 02:41
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	I have a couple of questions that people maybe able to help me
out with...

1) Does anyone have the code to pipe an AES message (specifically a redraw
	message) to an application.  I believe this was mentioned in Tim
	Oren's Professional GEM column (on CompuServe?) but I don't have
	it.  The code should be pretty short.
2) Has anyone had any trouble using menu_ienable and menu_icheck?  I 
	probably forgot to initialize something, and would be open to
	any suggestions so I can track down the problem.  The menu bar is on
	the screen, and I get menu messages fine, but my menu_ienable
	calls often cause no results, and sometimes crash with 2 bombs.
	I created the menu with the RCS.  Is there something I don't know?
3) The GEM documentation describes two ways to select a height for a font
	vst_point and vst_height (or something like that).  I want a
	way to switch between the small and normal system fonts in
	any resolution, and be compatible with future changes.  I can find
	the cell size of the standard font character when I get graf_handle
	(or somewhere in the beginning).  Anyway...how can I set the size
	to be this character box.  If I use vst_height, I have to specify
	the distance from the top to the BASELINE, but I only know the
	cell height.  And I can't use vst_point (though this appears to
	be character cell mode) since this is in printer points apparently.
	ALL I WANT TO DO IS SWITCH FROM SMALL TO LARGE CHARACTERS!!  Am I
	misunderstanding or what????  Help.
4) What happens if I do a wind_set with WF_WORKXYWH.  Will the window
	be set?  I normally use wind_set with WF_CURRXYWN to set the
	border.  Just curious.
5) More coming later ... probably.  Thanks for any help.

					--- Bri

					uc.bri@deep-thought.mit.edu
					...!eddie!bri

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