TTF Lister Plugin

LionTech · Post by *LionTech » 2003-06-12, 19:25 UTC

Hi all,

here's my first attempt at a lister plugin for Total Commander.

It displays some minimal information about TrueType fonts. It is nowhere near feature-complete (hence the 0.0.1 version number).

You can download it from http://users.pandora.be/liontech/wlxTTF.zip

Peter.

djk · Post by *djk » 2003-06-12, 19:59 UTC

- Add to readme info that the attached library should be copied to Windows\System32 (in WinXP) directory. First I've copied it to my lister plugin directory and.. it didn't work.
- The scrollbars are useless.
- I prefer the way Windows native displays font's info. It shows among other information - the example of the text - it's important because I can see if the font support eg. Polish chars.
- Why have you limited the number of displaying glyphs?

LionTech · Post by *LionTech » 2003-06-12, 20:09 UTC

- The scrollbars come up by default. I haven't figured out how to remove them yet.
- Well, one of the reason I chose this layout is because I don't like the default font view. But like I said: it's a first version. I can expand on it.
- I just display the first 256 glyphs because I want to properly support the multiple Unicode pages. I didn't get around to that yet.

djk · Post by *djk » 2003-06-12, 20:12 UTC

I will be waiting for a new version

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-06-12, 20:59 UTC

It seems that it will be a great plugin.

I think you should take a look at this little program I currently use: mapOchar.
For the moment, I think it is the best program to display fonts content, and you could get inspiration from it.

http://www.chelly.net/disk/mapochar.exe

djk · Post by *djk » 2003-06-12, 21:08 UTC

fabiochelly wrote:I think you should take a look at this little program I currently use: mapOchar.

Thanks Fabio for the link, tt seems to be really nice

LionTech, have a look at it.