From: "doug" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Announce: AllegTTF version 1.8 available Date: 12 May 2000 18:32:30 GMT Organization: none Lines: 32 Message-ID: <01bfbd0a$a73bcce0$f1247d81@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: client36-241.oprit.rug.nl X-Trace: info.service.rug.nl 958156350 1736 129.125.36.241 (12 May 2000 18:32:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT rug DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2000 18:32:30 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Announce: AllegTTF version 1.8 available What is ALLEGTTF ALLEGTTF is a collection of functions to produce anti-aliased text output and TTF (True Type Font) loader, a GRX font loader and a bitmap font loader for use with Allegro and DJGPP. Antialiased text means that fonts have 'soft' edges and blend into their backgrounds smoothly. Antialiased fonts are useful because the look a lot better than non-antialiased fonts, expecially at low resolutions/point sizes. Version 1.8 is some added functionality bug fixes and Linux compatibility over 1.7. ---Request for help--- ALLEGTTF was originally designed for use with Allegro and DOS. Now that Allegro supports other platforms (Linux, Windows, etc), I would like to get ALLEGTTF working for all the platforms that Allegro supports. Dan Bogdanov has already sent me some changes to get ALLEGTTF to work with Allegro/Linux however the Windows support for ALLEGTTF is still lacking. I have done most of what I think needs to be done, but I am having problems accessing the _textmode variable in the Allegro DLL. I know almost nothing about Windows programming, so I cannot do it all myself. If you know some basics about Windows programming and want to contribute to ALLEGTTF, please mail me and we can get ALLEGTTF wiorking for Windows platforms. You can find a link to it and some other stuff at: http://huizen.dds.nl/~deleveld/index.htm Doug Eleveld