Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:09:22 +22305931 (WAUST)
From: Ron Grunwald <rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: Graphical Environnement for PC-GNU compiler
To: "Eric.Nicolas" <eric DOT nicolas AT iota-eso DOT u-psud DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



On Tue, 15 Nov 1994, Eric.Nicolas wrote:

> I am a french student, and I am working on a big projet of graphical interface
> for GNU compiler on PC. I is a object-oriented library which defines all
> classic features of graphical interfaces : windows, buttons, menus...
> 


An interesting project. I wonder how you generate your character fonts.
Do you have bitmapped patterns hardcoded, or are you using some existing
font libraries?

What would be interesting is designing some code that can read the
Windows 3.1 font files (True Type) and generate the fonts that way.


Regards, Ron.



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