He's at it again. I'm telling you, this guy doesn't stop. I wonder what he takes.. mmmmmmm

He brings us some more news on his progress and this time he even marvels us with his knowledge of french!

For you viewing (and lazy) pleasure, i'll post the whole shebang here:

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I spent most of this weekend bashing my head against a wall, figuratively speaking. Rendering a normal string is relatively easy compared to rendering a rotated string - which *still* doesn't work right. :( OTOH, our font shear code will work better than Be's - theirs causes the characters to slide a little and ours doesn't, and it also looks quite good. Ironically, getting the transform code right is the hardest part of all the font code, it seems. R2 may have other transforms available, such as horizontal or vertical flipping, projection, and/or vertical shear, depending on how things work out.

Anyway, I've also got a new display module for the server under construction and well under way. The one seen in prototypes 3-6 utilized an offscreen bitmap drawn to the screen via a regular BWindow. The new one takes over the screen and writes directly to the hardware. The difference? An improvement anywhere from 2 to 10 times or more, depending on how slow the old driver decides to be. The only down side to the thing is that the Input Server emulation is done via the cursor keys - polling the mouse manually will take too much CPU power and using the Router add-on isn't a real good idea, either, because of system stability problems it causes. Oh well. C'est la vie."

Not only does he code fast, he codes damn well too... i'm telling you, the app_server will rock!