FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions
This page includes answers to frequently asked questions
about using Metagraphics Media!Lab multimedia animation programming toolkit.
Category
- General
- Fonts
- Phar Lap TNT
- Borland PowerPack
- MetaWINDOW Source Code
General
- Is my graphics card supported with MetaWINDOW?
- How much memory does MetaWINDOW require?
- Can MetaWINDOW output to a color or PostScript
printer?
- Can I run MetaWINDOW as part of a native Windows
application?
- Can MetaWINDOW be made ROMable for use in an embedded
application?
- Is possible for MetaWINDOW to operate multiple displays
in a single system?
- When debugging, how can do I control if keyboard input
goes to the debugger or to MetaWINDOW?
- What MetaWINDOW libraries should I use with the Magma
Systems Mewel GUI toolkit?
- What Microsoft Mouse Driver functions does MetaWINDOW use?
Fonts
- Are there any Japanese or Chinese fonts available
for use with MetaWINDOW?
- Is it possible to bind a font directly into my
executable program?
- Can I design my own MetaWINDOW stroked fonts?
- How do I determine what fonts my users will need
for a given display mode?
- How do I get text to come out with proportionally
spaced characters?
- Why are the bottom of my characters garbled or cut-off
when using certain fonts?
Borland PowerPack
- How do I address the pixels in a Borland PowerPack
DPMI32 local memory bitmap?
- When running my PowerPack program I get a 32loader
runtime error : Unhandled exception message - what's going on?
Phar Lap TNT
- Does MetaWINDOW work with the Phar Lap Embedded
Tool Suite (ETS)?
- Customer Note - Using MetaWINDOW in a native Windows
application.
- Why do I get an InitGraphics() error or protection fault
when running my Phar Lap TNT MetaWINDOW application under Windows or OS/2?
- Why would floating-point operations in my MetaWINDOW
application using Phar Lap TNT cause my program to crash?
- Customer Note - Using MetaWINDOW in Phar Lap
"NtStyle" applications.
MetaWINDOW Source Code
- How do I build a
linked library with the drivers built-in rather than loaded as DLL's?
- How do I build a library that includes just
MetACCEL linked drivers?
- How do I build a MetaWINDOW
library for use with the Magma Systems Mewel GUI toolkit?
- How do I interface a custom mouse driver
with MetaWINDOW?