RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Rescanning available fonts

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 18 May 2006 09:56 +0100 Charles Moir <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Clearly the polling should
> > be done from a low priority idle handler and only
> > occasionally (ever 5 secs or so). Is there any necessity to
> > do other than when in the text tool?
>
> Oh yes - the fonts in the document can change at any time. Whenever the
> fonts on the machine change - so that could be while working on the
> document even, while using any tool.

Oh sure. But do we actually need the font list updated till the user
returns to the text tool? A poll on return to the text tool would
surely detect the change.

Alex