[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Juan Vuletich]

On 8/4/2015 4:42 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
> On 4 Aug 2015 at 16:09, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>
>> On 8/4/2015 3:35 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
>>> On 3 Aug 2015 at 22:52, Dan Norton wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> If a font name is not in the system, the image crashes. Only a
>>>> reboot recovers.
>>>>
>>>> It is not possible to create a new file in the AAFonts directory.
>> It
>>>> is possible in the current
>>>> directory however.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to restore my system to before Visual Studio et al.
>> There
>>>> is too much wierdness.
>>>>
>>> Hi Juan,
>>>
>>> After the restore and after extracting again the two zip files
>> from your dropbox there remain
>>> fundamental problems. In FreeTypeFont>>export the following
>> statement results in nothing
>>> written to AAFonts directory:
>>>
>>> n := 'AAFonts', FileDirectory slash, face familyName, '-', emph
>> asString , '-', pointSize
>>> printString.
>>>
>>> If changed to spell out the complete path as follows, some of the
>> .bmp and .txt files are
>>> written to AAFonts before other problems arise:
>>>
>>> n :=  '\cuis\pharo\Squeak4.10.2-2612\AAFonts\', face familyName,
>> '-', emph asString , '-',
>>> pointSize printString.
>>>
>>>    - Dan
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I tried again. On a Windows 7 system, I stored the contents of both
>> zips
>> in a folder, started the image and exported 'Calibri' without any
>> problems.
>>
> On my Windows 7 I tried to export 'Calibri' and got MNU: receiver of "nextPutAll:" is nil.
> This is the same problem which led to my work-around above. Don't waste any more time on
> this. It may be something clobbered a .dll and has nothing to do with Squeak. I will continue
> to work on it because I need a fixed-width font. Not having it has me stalled on a project.
>

Then I suggest the following: Save the contents of those zips to a thumb 
drive. Borrow a Windows machine, from someone that doesn't do weird 
stuff with dlls and VisualStudio ;-) . Run from the thumb drive, and 
take it home.

Oh, something else. On the Mac, the procedure generated txt files with 
integer numbers. On Windows there are Floats. Most likely that is wrong...

Mhhh. Maybe tonight I'll try to export Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or 
Inconsolata myself...

>> In any case, this is not part of Cuis. It wasn't even meant for
>> distribution, just for my own use when I built the Bitmap Vera Sans
>> fonts in Cuis/Squeak/Pharo. I only published it at your personal
>> request, and not in the Cuis repo. It is given without support or
>> warranties. If you want to use it, try understanding what is going
>> on.
>> After all, it is just Smalltalk. If you do that, and ask specific
>> questions, I'll answer.
>>
>> Juan Vuletich
>

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich