Hi Dave, > The main problem I'm having with the ATC sim idea is that I would need to > design and use a custom miniature font, and then draw it somewhere else, > then AND/OR it into the video display to allow planes to overlap, since > there's no transparent backgrounds in QDOS.
Does OVER 1 (or OVER -1) not work for you? > area, so... To get ten planes and the beacons and the flight tags and the > strips up is.... hefty. Also, the average QLer is now in their 40s or 50s, > and won't publicly acknowledge their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be > yet. I will, I'm 50 and my eyes are failing now. I have reading glasses for reading (!) and screen work. Well, it's either my eyes or my arms are shrinking! > Someone suggested I do an eBook reader. Any merit to that? The EPUB (popular) ebook format is basically zipped up XHTML files. So you would need to write an XHTML "browser" first then tag on the EPUB stuff. You would need to be able to handle links and images etc. I was thinking of doing one in assembler under the PE at some point in the future - most of the EPUB readers of a software nature on Linux (where the source is available) make lots of calls to support libraries. So they would need converting too. <SNIP> Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
