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[qbits]

Hi bwinkel67 thanks for your inquiry.

8 colour high res is used with QPC2 which will default to four colours with Mode 4 on other older QL Platforms as when using QL Qemulator or QL2K running at QLBB speed. In these environments QBITS Trader takes a few minutes to go through the Stock Trends calculations at start up and with each WEEK END changes. BUY or SELL will be slow but workable.
A 10-fold speed increase such as Gold card etc would be more workable. Q68 or Qimsi running SMSQ/E should be fine.

The only problem I have encountered so far is older QL Fonts Chr$(181) Ctrl+Shift+U may not produce Euro symbol!

The easy fix might be to upgrade the QL ext. Fonts ie. Fbase2=ALCHP(588) : LBYETS dev$&’QLFontB_fnt’,FBase2
Then CHAR_USE#ch,0,FBase2 (QLFontB_fnt uploaded in previous posts to this topic)

Or I could add it as an extra line of code to QBITS_Trader_bas if there is enough interest.

QBITS

[qbits]

Hi all,
QBITS FontEditEE
To use the Vector Scalable Fonts of SE Plus I’ve been developing a HEADINGS Design Section.

Note: QPC2 Emulator in MODE 16 is the Platform where I write most of my Code now days.

QBITS_ScrSaver_bas
The QBITS S/SuperBASIC Prog I’ve been playing around with for Screen Saving and Viewing of the Headings.
F1 Select a Screen Area and Save as _pic File.
F2 Set x,y position and Load _pic File to Screen

The Prog and Three _pic files provided for Screen Mode 4,16 and 32 in .zip
QBSS04_pic, QBSS16_pic QBss32_pic

Have fun exploring S/SupeBASIC…

QBITS

[RalfR]

Great, as usual

[qbits]

Hi All,
QBITS FontEdit started out as a simple bitmap editor of QL Fonts each 9Bytes x 8bits.The Special Edition explored Font use and development and included 3 Retro ARCADE Games using designed Font. SE Plus provided Specialised Fonts for Music and Timers and displays of different Font sizes and Proportional spacing. Font enlargement over the CSIZE’s in Pixel mode and Scalable Vector Graphic conversion of Bitmaps was then added following some QL Forum discussions.

QBITS FontEdit Extended Edition Adds a Headings Editor that utilises the Font Scalable Vector Graphics to create STYLES with up to 24 Characters, varying the Boldness, Width and Depth. A Highlight Shade can be added centred on one of the four corners. As an alternative Character Pixel rows can be set with different colours for a strip effect. F1/F2 sets the displays with one of two wave forms. (S)ave the Heading as a Work File ‘_qbt’ and (O)pen for Further Editing or as a screen saver (P)ic File. Then use (V)iew to selected and display ‘_pic’ File.

QBITS FontEditEE.zip

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The zip folder holds a number of Font ‘_fnt’ Files, Plus ‘ fzx’ to try Import, ‘_qbt’ Headings Work file,
‘_pic’ Screen Saver files. Note These are Mode Specific.

Further information can be found in the accompanying pdf

QB02_FontEditEE.pdf

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Download and unzip folder into your selected Device.
Load QBITS_FontEditEE_bas and on line 1002 change Dev$ to your selected Device name.
Run Program

Thanks RalfR and for your past help Andrew and Dilwyn with the scalable and proportional fonts.

QBITS

[RalfR]

As always, well done!