Subj : Curiosity - Fonts
To   : Digital Man
From : DesotoFireflite
Date : Sat Feb 05 2022 13:39:51

  Re: Curiosity - Fonts
  By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Fri Feb 04 2022 05:54 pm

 DM>> To make that "one word in one menu" different, I:
 DM>> 1. set blink=gothical in the [default:16] section of my fonts.ini
 DM>> 2. Use the EXEC @-code to load loadfont.js in my text/banner*.msg
 DM>> file 3. Used the Ctrl-Af code to select that font for that one word.
 DM>> I also use the WIDE @-code, so that one word will appear double-wide
 DM>> for UTF-8 terminals. 

 DM>> You could copy loadfonts.js to your mods directory (and maybe rename
 DM>> it) and modify it to load a different section from fonts.ini (not
 DM>> necessarily "default", as is hard-coded in loadfonts.js) and then
 DM>> that "one menu" could use the EXEC @-code to load that font section
 DM>> and other menus could load different fonts (if that's what you're
 DM>> looking for). 

 DM>> I *think* that if you load a font while there's text on the screen,
 DM>> it'll apply to the text already on the screen (iirc, but I could be
 DM>> wrong), so you probably can't load a different (say, "default") font
 DM>> section *after* your "one menu" is displayed and get the results you
 DM>> want. But you could 
 DM>> experiment with that idea.

 De> OK, gotcha, I saw some of this in wiki, but you put it togeather wher it
 De> made some sense to me. I think I have enough no to make it happen. Thanks
 De> so much for the help. 


Ahh, that is so cool. I love it :). It works like a charm on a test menu I made, now to put it to use. What I like especially is when someone logs in with a non syncterm terminal like ZOC, they never know there was something special going on, not even the blinking text using the Ctrl-A "f"code, Thanks so much for your help in this, You knocked this one out of the park :) Syncterm really brings it home...

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