Hi Balthasar This looks really nice. I remember that once I was desperately looking for a CPI editor that would be GPL, and couldn't find any - yours would be really useful back then. IIRC I finally ended up using the Display Font Editor from Rimrock Software (1991, great tool, but commercial license only).
Anyway, I have a few suggestions/ideas/bug reports below, maybe you will find these interesting ;) 1. I haven't managed to compile it from source (but haven't tried very hard either, and I have very limited knowledge about how to use Turbo C++). I did produced an executable, but the linker was complaining a lot about undefined symbols, so I probably missed how to link the egavga lib. A section in the readme about 'how to build from source' would be appreciated (maybe a makefile also? this would greatly simplify the build process). I assume the *.prj file contains some indications, but looking at it with a hex editor I see there are some hardcoded paths there, so it's probably useful only on your system. 2. When I pressed F4, and tried to get out (escape, empty string..) I broke the UI and had to abort via CTRL+C. Some input checking there could be nice. 3. I had some troubles to get started using it - mostly because I didn't knew what I should do (home/end, pgup/pgdown, etc...). An in-program help section could be of great help. Eg. under F1 - something that would display a short list of keys to use. 4. The 'official' name of the program is unclear. Is it 'cpied', 'CPI Editor', or 'Edytor Napisów' ? All these names appear at one point or another. 5. The version string is inconsistent - in the documentation and source code it says '1.2b', while in the program itself it states '1.2'. 6. When I want to load a file (F3), then press enter a few times, the input dialog stays displayed, but any new text appear much lower in the screen. Seems that you ignore enter if it's presses on an empty string, while I feel it should immediately provide some error message. 7. It's not clear how many codepages are stored in a file. To know this, one have to count them manually with home/end. It would be great if the total of avaiable code pages would be printed on screen (eg. in the title bar, next to the file name). Even better - having some kind of a menu that lists available codepages, and allows to choose the one we want. Such menu could be then used also to remove codepages or add new codepages, and it would be called like 'codepages management' or something like that. 8. You seem to always display 3 fixed sizes of fonts. I don't know anything about the CPI format, but is it possible that a CPI file could contain more font sizes? Or font sizes different from what you assume (8x8, 8x14, 8x16) ? 9. There is no CPX support, but nevertheless, it would be cool to be able to detect the CPX format, and provide some hints about what to do. Right now cpied just says 'Unsupported format, id0=0x81'. Would be great if it would say something like "this is CPX, not supported format, but if you need to edit it simply uncompress it first using UPX -d font.cpx -o font.cpi" cheers, Mateusz On 07/14/2013 11:51 PM, Rowery na Księżycu wrote: > I made a CPI editor. Maybe it could be useful. > > It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts, > remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui and can be controlled with the > keyboard or mouse (if there is a mouse installed). It doesn't support *.cpx > files yet > > download: > http://baltixy.w.interia.pl/in05.zip > http://baltixy.w.interia.pl/in05.htm > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
