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Preface
installation on cards
- root qDSed.nds
- font sys.qds, txt.qds, prefs.qds
your trueType fonts
- text doc.txt
your ascii texts
installation on emulators
-> see emulators
cards
- qDSed is tested on SuperCard SD and
SuperCard One, please give me reports
about other systems and cards
- FAT support for NDS in devkitPro seems not
to work correct with all cards, so it might
happen that qDSed cannot store its prefs or
cached fonts correctly, especially older,
cheaper or slower SD cards often show these
problems, if you're experiencing strange
behavior, crashes or garbage in your texts,
especially when using big sized fonts, try
an other card, also patching qDSed with the
appropriate DLDI file might solve the problem
emulators
- works on 'DeSmuME 0.7.2' but only FAT
reading is implemented in this emulator
version, so prefs and cached fonts cannot
be written, at second this emu has a problem
with sub directories, so all fonts and files
must be in the same place as qDSed.nds
- double taps for file or font selection are
not recognized correctly in 'DeSmuME', you may
not mouse-click twice at the same place,
second click near the first click instead
- 'ideas 1019' with 'R4 revolution' DLDI
works well too, only double taps are not
detected, I don't know why yet
- all other emulators seem to lack FAT support,
qDSed will not find his fonts and exits
with a fatal error
fonts
- tested well with trueType fonts
- after successfully loading a font
the status field shows something like
OK name.tft (123) [8 9 10 11 12]
() shows the number of glyphs in font
[] holds the available bitmap strikes =
monochrome versions of the font in certain sizes
- monochrome font rendering looks patchy with
some bitmap strikes, example 'couriernew'
strikes smaller than 9 pixel, despite of it
'lucidacon' looks good on this sizes,
reasons unknown
Usage
!!! double taps on emulators !!!
-> see emulators
flip screens
- left shoulder button
scrollbars
- tap in lower right corner of text or
control screen for scrollbars
- drag slider to navigate text
- tap up- or downside the slider to move
page wise
load text
- tap load button
- double tap file name to load
- double tap free space or headline or press
left shoulder button to exit without loading
change font
- tap font button
- double tap font name to load
- double tap free space or headline or press
left shoulder button to exit without loading
- set font parameters with controls
- tap render button & wait
exit
- stores settings on card
(crashes emulators)
pen
- use pen to scroll vertical or horizontal
- tapping on control elements shows their
function, some of them will change their
step size
controls
- virtual screen width
256...2000 pixel (step 100/500)
- W for word wrap
- L for line combine (experimental)
- font rendering MON = mono chrome
AAN = normal anti aliased grey
AA2 = tight anti aliased grey
- font height
4...60 pixel (step 1/10)
- horizontal spacing
-30%...+100% (step 1/10)
- vertical spacing
-50%...+100% (step 1/10)
- step sizes are changed by tapping
on corresponding fields
status field
- tapping the status field switches between
four lines for long messages
low buffer warning
- partly rendered text pages may occur
if this warning is shown
- to avoid it reduce screen width,
switch off line combine or wordwrap or
increase font size
Filesize Shares
- FreeType 200 k
- rebootlib 30 k
- qDSEd code 40 k
Thanks
- FreeType project at Sourceforge.net
- Rick Wong (Lick) for rebootlib 1.1
- Michael Chisholm for load.bin
- Simon for testing
History
V0.4
- reader for ascii text or source code
- virtual wide screen
- smooth scroll
- quick changing for three texts
- truetype font format support (ttf)
- three types of font rendering
- wordwrap & linecombine
- quick start with cached system- & textfont
- fixed tab size 4 spaces
- max file- & fontfilename len 64 chars
- max path + filenamelen 256 chars
- max text filesize 2 GB
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