| Hi what's the deal with Text Attributes for widgets on AmigaDOS 2.0?
You now have much more capability to control the font you than you used to.
What is the default font and does it look bad?
Well, the default font as the system is shipped is topaz, new de-serifed.
I'm still using it. Of course, the system now lets the usert make the
default fonts be any font they want, and there are some ugly ones around.
What happens to the text in my AlgoRhythms program on 2.0?
I dunno. I probably wouldn't notice a difference, because I use topaz.
Why do I have to set Text Attributes all over the place to select
the font that is the default in 1.3?
Under 1.3, there was the screen font, which was always topaz for WB (modulo
hacks, but the system didn't provide a way to change it), and set
by your application on other screens. Under 2.0, neither of these things
is true. So you must either arrange to get a font whose size you know, or
make your code sensitive to changes in the size of the font you get.
<mike
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