Re: [cc65] TGI summary

From: Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc1web.de>
Date: 2009-10-27 10:55:26
Hi,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Groepaz <groepaz@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009, Daniel Serpell wrote:
>
>> Should a default font be included? Because, if the font is included in the
>> wrapper, doing outtext completely in the wrapper seems better to me.
>
> including a font a wrapper sounds like a bad idea to me - since many (of not
> most) targets have a font in ROM.

And apart from that I don't see a cross platform, cross driver storage
format for a font allowing for effective, performant text drawing. Not
even talking about a cross platform, cross driver bit blitting - or do
you want to draw the characters as individual lines ;-)

Best, Oliver
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