np@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nigel Perry) (01/12/88)
Could somebody please help me with the following problems/questions? HyperTalk ========= 1) Is there a "proper" way to catch keystrokes? There doesn't seem to be a message for them - HyperCard always seems to grab them and use them in the message box or a field. I have got around the problem by installing an "idle" handler which grabs characters from the message box and sends them as keyDown messages - but it is slow and typing too fast loses characters... (If you wondering... my current application is a "Speak & Spell" card as part of a MacinTalk interface stack. I would also like to have "menus" were you can select by pressing a key instead of a button.) 2) Is there a way to change AND keep changed the cursor while in Browse mode? E.g. I would like the cursor to change when over a button/field, catching mouseEnter/mouseExit and using "set cursor" doesn't work as once the handler has completed the Browse cursor is restored. Any ideas? Laserwriter =========== Can somebody send me, or tell me where to find, the format of a FONT/FOND and Laserwriter font file for a downloadable font. In other words I have a screen bitmap font & a postscript font description for it, all I need is how to package them up so that the Laserwriter driver will download and use the postscript. Thanks in advance for your help. --- Nigel Perry Department of Computing Imperial College Janet: np@uk.ac.ic.doc London DARPA: np%uk.ac.ic.doc@ucl-cs SW7 Uucp: np@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!np England
holt@apple.UUCP (Bayles Holt) (01/16/88)
>Laserwriter >=========== > > Can somebody send me, or tell me where to find, the format of a > FONT/FOND and Laserwriter font file for a downloadable font. > In other words I have a screen bitmap font & a postscript font > description for it, all I need is how to package them up so that > the Laserwriter driver will download and use the postscript. FONTs are documented in "Inside Macintosh" Vol. I, Font Manager, pp. 218-235. FONDs are documented in Vol. IV, Font Manager, pp. 29-48 with more detailed information in the "LaserWriter Reference Manual", Chapter 4. Downloadable fonts are also described in Chapter 4. --Bayles holt@apple.APNET