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2014-08-29 19:29

almightyc64

Registered: Feb 2006
Posts: 8

C64 Font problem on Windows 7, any suggestions to fix?

Hi there, in my D64 Editor program that I wrote many years ago, I created a Bitmap font for display of the C64 Charset and on Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP it displays correctly. However, on Windows 7 a handful of the characters don't display correctly.

Here's a link to a screenshot of the difference between Windows XP and Windows 7. The screenshot on the left-side is from Windows XP and the majority of the characters display with no problems. The screenshot on the right-side is from Windows 7 and a bunch of the characters (the entire second row for example) are broken.

http://almighty.c64.org/win7-bitmap-font-problem.gif

Anyone else run into a similar problem with Windows 7 and Bitmap fonts and know how to fix it?

Thanks!
Forrest

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2014-09-03 21:27

almightyc64

Registered: Feb 2006
Posts: 8

And to bring the idea of changing the font to a close, after experimenting with Style's font pack it appears that Visual Basic components do not support Unicode format characters (only ANSI). Searching around online I found other people with the same problem, and on the surface it appears that Visual Basic has components that support Unicode, but they don't work and were intended to be used with the Microsoft Office applications only.

So it looks like replacing the font isn't going to work with the old D64 Editor. Luckily the vast majority of the characters display correctly, so it hasn't been much of a problem. It specifically came up because the character that Koala Paint files begin with doesn't display correctly anymore, but did work correctly on Windows XP and prior OS versions.

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