OpenEuphoria

Re: Fixed Width characters

• Posted by Jim <futures8 at PCOLA.GULF.NET> Nov 12, 2000
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Bernie,

Thanks for explanation. Gives me a new path to research.

Regards,

Jim

Bernie wrote:

>  The complication involed in using DOS FIXED fonts is they are
>  displayed in DOS as so many pixel wide and so many pixels high

>    ie 8x8.
>
>    When text is displayed in windows in a dialog box
>    the text is based on DIALOG UNITS because any dialog can be
>    resized so the number of pixels used to display text is changed
>    when ever the dialog is resized. The TABs and spaces are also based
>    on DIALOG UNITS. So your program code has to convert the tabs
>    or spaces to allow for this when moving from DOS to WINDOWS.
>    I'am sure one of the windows grus can explain how to do this.
>
>   Bernie