Re: Font Sizes - HOW??

John Wiley (john@silcom.com)
Wed, 22 Mar 95 00:18 PST

On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Jack Miller wrote:
> The fonts are hard-coded.

I assume that you mean the font *selections* are hard coded. Surely Palm
didn't have the time and resources to create an entirely new font for use
in the datebook and addressbook?

> It would not an easy answer to determine
> where in the binary code on the ROM you would need to change bits

Not easy for me, certainly. :)

But I figured someone with access to the source, or even the SDK and
debugger, wouldn't have much trouble finding the point(s) in the compiled
code where the font size is selected. Of course, I'd have to copy the
apps and/or libraries to RAM to change and run them. But since my wife
only uses those two apps, with one data file each, there's about 200k
free to play with.

> nor would it probably only be a few bits.

Wouldn't it just be a pointer to the size variable?

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