In a MorphOS version, we can remove the need for this of course.

Need to get enough MOS user pledges now :) If the genuine demand is there, we will do it.

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I do not know why it is needed at all. The amigaforever version perfectly works without bullet.library

On Aros 68k it does not work (even after copying bullet.library)

7.2 (Amigaforever) perfectly works

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Poster: OlafS25 Date: 2-Dec-2014 18:25:28 On Aros 68k it does not work (even after copying bullet.library) 7.2 (Amigaforever) perfectly works

Would an AROS version be needed if it worked ootb?

On that note I was going to buy the classic version however I don't agree with the handling fee.

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In a MorphOS version, we can remove the need for this of course. Need to get enough MOS user pledges now :) If the genuine demand is there, we will do it.

How will you survey this demand, are you setting up a poll on mzone or similar ?

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I do not know why it is needed at all. The amigaforever version perfectly works without bullet.library

Are you sure? 7.2 needs bullet as much as 7.3 (it's used for the VectorText).

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On Aros 68k it does not work (even after copying bullet.library) 7.2 (Amigaforever) perfectly works

Describe "does not work" in a bit more detail. If it simply doesn't start at all please can you tell me the error code. (type 'set' imediatly after running from shell ppaint to see the value of 'rc')

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You have to copy bullet.library from OS 3.x. MorphOS doesnt have it either. Maybe we need to develop dummy bullet.library, I dont think full implementation is required at this date...

PPaint uses the bullet API for the VectorText feature (essentially the smoothly scalable text objects). On AmigaOS4 it uses this API via the DiskFont library, so the important part is the API to access the font engines. Is there an API compatable replacement for that
under MOS (or AROS for that matter).

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Just quickly reminded myself of how the code works, and bullet.library is not opened until required, and only if the font being rendered requires it.

So I'm unsure of why the 68k version should require it, until you try and render a font.

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It looks like libnix is opening the bullet.library, as looking at a snoopy log it's been opened very early on before PPaint has started opening librraies for it's own use.
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thanx

regarding the error I will do some testing on weekend and create a log

bullet.library I do not know. Personal Paint 7.2 always worked without asking for bullet.library at startup. On Aros 68k it might be solvable by copying bullet.library from 3.X but on the other Aros versions it would be a problem. On Aros freetype2 is used (on MorphOS I do not know).

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It looks like libnix is opening the bullet.library, as looking at a snoopy log it's been opened very early on before PPaint has started opening librraies for it's own use.

You probably used ObtainInfo() or ReleaseInfo() in vararg form and if not inlined it needs global BulletBase. This again triggers libauto to automatically open BulletBase for you (to provide global).

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PPaint uses the bullet API for the VectorText feature (essentially the smoothly scalable text objects). On AmigaOS4 it uses this API via the DiskFont library, so the important part is the API to access the font engines. Is there an API compatable replacement for that under MOS (or AROS for that matter).

Mmh, is this similar to truetype fonts? There is freetype.library (2.4) but that is it.

The diskfont.library has some bullet API it seems. I dont know much about that but diskfont.library in MorphOS is from AROS, so... :)

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