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Tim Ballisto
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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 01:48 Edited at: 9th Apr 2004 01:49
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when you are writing the code, what font does the editor use? or what font lines up perfectly so that i and W take up the same space?

EDIT: heck, even like the font taht appears in the post forum message box when you type in it.


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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 08:12
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It's called a fixed pitch font. It's not as pretty as the proportional fonts that you usually see, but it's easier for a program to work with because each character has a constant width.

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if you look in the font folder then any of those font names with a red A icon are fixed (IIRC), there should also be one called "system" (can`t see it in the font folder tho...just looked) that the bios uses for startup messages etc, thats a fixed size font too.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 17:48 Edited at: 9th Apr 2004 17:49
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ok, that helps, but do you know what extention those files use?

EDIT: nevermind, i found it. .fon right?


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but now it's not fixed in my program, even though the font is fixed.

am i doing anything wrong?


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try courier.fon, that should work ok afaik, there is also an error in that code, it should read

set text font "app932.fon"

and to save you hopping to the window fonts folder and then having to come back from there when you want to save the game or anything, you could have done

set text font "c:\windows\fonts\app932.fon"

and make sure you have a size 20 listed amongst the sizes available, they can`t rescale on the fly like TT or proportional fonts, if that size isn`t listed than you can`t have it (unless you use an app to make that set of bitmaps and add them to the font)

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