Font Requester

A Font requester, shown Figure 8-1, allows you to change your font and font sizes. The standard Amiga font requester is used by the Font Preferences editor and by some applications.

Figure 8-1.

Example Font Requester

The Amiga font requester window displays the available fonts and corresponding point sizes in adjacent scroll boxes. The name of the selected front and current point size are displayed in gadgets beneath the scroll boxes.

Underneath the text gadgets, a display box shows a sample of the selected font and its size. Tall fonts may not fit within the box. Drag the font requester's sizing gadget to the right to show more of the characters in the font.

Selecting a new font name in the requester does not change the current font size. If the newly selected font does not exist in the current size, it is scaled to that size. Remember that bitmap fonts can appear rough or distorted when scaled. For better quality, select one on the font's existing sizes. If the new font is an outline font, there is a delay while the new font is generated.

The Amiga font requester has a Control menu with six items:

Last Font	Moves through the displayed font list backwards.
Next Font	Moves through the displayed font list forwards.
Restore	Recalls the font and size selected when the requester opened.
Rescan Disk	Looks through the FONTS: search path for newly added fonts.
OK	Uses the displayed font. The same as using the corresponding gadget.
Cancel	Restores the original setting. The same as using the corresponding gadget.

The keyboard shortcuts for these menu items do not work when one of the text gadgets is selected.