wargo@odin.ucsd.edu (Dave Wargo) (04/26/89)
What I would like to do is have the "Font" pull down menu show the actuall font it says that it is. What resource would have to be changed to do this? I have poked at the system folder using resedit and have found the font folder, but alas I do not know where to go from there. Thanks Dave Dave Wargo wargo@odin.ucsd.edu Ice Cream, it isn't just for breakfast anymore.
cep@apple.com (Christopher Pettus) (04/27/89)
In article <6302@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> wargo@odin.ucsd.edu (Dave Wargo) writes: > What I would like to do is have the "Font" pull down menu show the > actuall font it says that it is. > > What resource would have to be changed to do this? The standard MDEF always displays the items in the system font (for most systems, that's Chicago). The only way to get a Font menu which displays in the font itself is by writing a custom MDEF; fortunately, that's not too hard unless you want to support ALL of the features of the standard MDEF, including color and hierarchical submenus. Fortunately, it's a rare FONT menu that would want to do that. Two other things to consider: 1) Drawing something in lots of fonts can be very, very slow, since the Font Manager has to suck every font into memory, one at a time, perhaps rescaling it in the process; and, 2) Many fonts don't contain the Roman alphabet (for example, Zapf Dingbats), and thus displaying the name of the font in the font itself would not be particularly useful to the user. -- Christopher Pettus | Brahma said: 'Well, after hearing Network Systems Development | ten thousand explanations, a fool Apple Computer, Inc. | is no wiser. But an intelligent cep@apple.com {nsc, sun}!apple!cep | man needs only two thousand five AppleLink: PETTUS.C | hundred.' -- The Mahabharata