Stuff I Like: Font Bucket
 Hands High Software makes some very nice replacement application for the standard Palm OS PIM apps. They recently released a free tool called Font Bucket. This tool handles management of a collection of fonts on the handheld, giving a configuration dialog where the user can see font samples and supporting beaming of fonts from device to device.
Font Bucket comes with the source files needed to integrate it into your application. Instead of calling Palm OS to manage fonts, you call routines in the supplied FontBucket.c. This code is designed to fallback to standard Palm OS calls if Font Bucket isn't installed on the device.
FontBucket's C API is pretty extensive. Here is a list of API names:
FmInit, FmSelectFont, FmUseFont, FmFreeFont, FmClose, FmValidFont, FmFontName, FmGetFMFontIdFromName, FmGetFMFontID, FmGetFontCount, FmGetIndexedFontInfo, FmGetFontInfo, FmGetFamilyNames
It also provides a C++ class that encapsulates this functionality into a FontBucket object. Brief documentation for these APIs is provided in a Word document included in the package.
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