sorry about that!
Happy New Year!
I think that it is appropriate that I also state that the discussion of
the pro and con rant about encryption is out of place here, and that I apologize
to anyone who's feelings I have hurt. That includes you, Jeff.
It is true that many of us do not live in the USA and are content to remain
where ever we are, such as myself. That being said, I wonder if anyone out
there can give some advice on creating (or concatenating) font files into a set
larger than 0-255 chars. And how could this be editted? The reason I
ask is that I have also created a humungo' chinese-japanese-korean to english
character and phrase translator (which I use to translate very old classical
chinese written works) and about six months ago finished porting
it over from my ancient, yet beloved Amiga. I initially used Jiri's wonderful
font tools and sets. However, it would not allow the inclusion of more than
about three full fonts (32X32 pixel) without turning into a tortoise. I do not
mean this as any sort of criticism to Jiri, as what I am doing is very much out
there on the edge of things; not normal. I should explain that the full running
set is using over 214 full fonts when
it is running! So it requires over 16-bit character designation, i.e., fonts
running from AA.f to GG.f and a slight bit more. Unicode is useless
for this, as it just names characters to a position (it is a protocol standard).
As I used to do on the Amiga, I automatically generate a RAM-DRIVE at bootup
(win95 and win98, depending on which harddrive I am using that day) and dump the
scores of font files into with a BAT file. These files are used by by my program
one at a time, each time being installed and then de-installed; very hard on the
run-time as there are sometimes up to four or five files needed to pick chars
from to display the needed phrase on the screen. I am using 4 megs of vidio ram,
64 megs of memory, a 300 mhz cpu, and this still is far, far slower than what my
old Amiga does with a 68000 Motorola!
Any suggestions?
(By the way, I will post the method for setting up a RAM-DRIVE if anyone is
interested. It is very simple, and hasn't blown up on me ever)
thanks Norm
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