[fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk
Sun Jan 20 10:27:24 CET 2008
Anthony W.Henry wrote:
>> One thing I'd add is that using Delphi it's possible (although not trivial) to
>> embed a .fon as a resource in an executable. I don't know the extent to which
>> this can be done using (in particular) Lazarus on Windows or on Linux.
>
> I imagine the easiest way is bin2obj and just make it a constant
> array in the program. :) That is a useful trick and much easier
> then resources.
That's true (and interesting), but I was thinking about the bigger picture
where a program was running under Windows or X and you wanted to pass a custom
fount to the overall graphical environment rather than having to plot
individual pixels.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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