[Coco] OT:my video

[Bill Pierce]

Another alternative would be to create your own font. Use the "special" chars from 128 and up. These are not used on stock os9 fonts and used as foreign & special chars in most custom fonts
You would then have to supply the font with the installation as well as load the font in program init. All doable from basic09 from gfx2. There are several font editors in the coco archives.


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-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT:my video


On 14-03-29 09:05 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> I looked at the LINE function in GFX2. While the manual does not
> specifically say so, it returns errors when trying to use it on a text
> screen, so I assume it is a graphics window function only. As for using the
> UNDLN function, I am already doing that with the first letter of the tab
> words and the first letter of the options for saving, exiting and defaults.
> If I use UNDLN to create a solid looking border between the tabs and the
> body, you won't see the underscore of the first letter.
>
> I have thought of an alternative, and I am going to do that today. I will
> also be setting the colors in the color registers so they reflect
> foreground and background versions (light and dark). I'll post when the
> video is on youtube.

Most text mode window borders use "-" for horizontal lines, "|" for 
vertical lines, and "+" for corners. (If the system has line drawing 
characters like the PC, they usually use those, but the coco3 doesn't 
have those.) The coco3 does have the |, -, and + characters. These 
obviously take up one character cell outside of the actual window.


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