wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (05/07/89)
From article <2720@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, by blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak): > Parik Rao wrote: >> o graphic control panel. A NDA look-alike. Its a program called >> GS.OS.DEV in the SYSTEM subdirectory, and a entire subdirectory >> called CDEVS is devoted to it. > > If this is right (and I'm assuming it is), why is there a subdirectory > for CDEVs? I know that some people really don't like the way the Mac works > with things like DAs (having to add/remove the resource chunks from the > System file), but it seems there's a bit of a difference... Or is Apple The last I checked, the Control Panel *was* an NDA. CDEV's *do* live in the CDEVS subdirectory of the system (continuing the separate file metaphor used with fonts, tools, & DA's. There is, though, a CDEV init file in SYSTEM.SETUP. I don't recall what all it does. CDEV's, like DA's, can be dropped in & out of the directory. Unlike DA's (and like the Mac CDEV's & RDEVS) this can be done without rebooting (unless the CDEV depends on some initialization stuff). btw, someone was asking about fast fonts. As far as I know, there is only one, currently: Shaston 8 (this is subject to change, obviously). Fast fonts give you (at the expense of memory & disk space) much faster text drawing. It's done (I think) by storing all 4 possible nibble offsets for the character bitmaps, so that it just zaps the pre-shifted bitmap wherever it needs to go.-- Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or dead.
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (05/08/89)
In article <10099@claris.com> wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes: >The last I checked, the Control Panel *was* an NDA. CDEV's *do* live in the >CDEVS subdirectory of the system (continuing the separate file metaphor used >with fonts, tools, & DA's. There is, though, a CDEV init file in SYSTEM.SETUP. >I don't recall what all it does. CDEV's, like DA's, can be dropped in & out >of the directory. Unlike DA's (and like the Mac CDEV's & RDEVS) this can be >done without rebooting (unless the CDEV depends on some initialization stuff). > Could you (or someone else) please explain to me what a CDEV is? Thanks a lot. -- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (yes, "unknown" really is an account name) The Unknown User
blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak) (05/08/89)
In article <7036@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >Could you (or someone else) please explain to me what a CDEV is? A CDEV is a chunk of the graphic Control Panel NDA found on the Mac, and, as of System Disk 5.0, on the IIgs. Each CDEV controls a certain aspect of the computer - there are CDEVs for the Clock, the Modem Port, etc. People other than Apple can write them (assuming they release how to do it, which is fairly likely :), so, Applied Engineering might write one to control the TransWarp gs (NOTE! this is _just_ an example), or something like that... Each CDEV has an icon in a scrollable list, and when you click on that icon, the right part of the Control Panel NDA's window contains whatever that CDEV wants to display - you can then play around with the settings in that CDEV, then select another one, etc. >Thanks a lot. No problem... :) >unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (yes, "unknown" really is an account name) >The Unknown User ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Blochowiak (blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu) "Not your average iconoclast..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------