OpenEuphoria

Re: EDS

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Mar 08, 2000
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I finally got a chance to look at EDS. Pretty clever.

I'm thinking of using EDS as a font server for my DOS window manager. I use
Jiri's fonts (with Pete's rendering code), but it lacks some information,
such as a font's family, name, size, descent, and so on.

If I stored all the fonts in an EDS file, I could determine if a particular
font existed, or find a near replacement in the same family. It also looks
like it'll be easy to extend the font information without having to create a
new file format: the whole thing can be stored in EDS.

Another application of EDS might be to store bitmaps and their palettes. It
could work like a Windows resource file. Have you considered attaching an
EDS file to a bound Euphoria program (like my RES program does)?

Real exciting stuff!

-- David Cuny