Richard Kirkby graciously allowed me to become a vfdlib developer so I could update and release vfdlib. vfdlib v4 has been released with support for v3 alpha font files. Additionally, I populated the CVS tree, such that if another project wishes to automatically fetch files from CVS it should be doable.

Edit: now with a link to the release

Cool!

Now that you're the maintainer, allow me to be the first to make a nitpicky request.

Shouldn't the buffers in vfdlib be unsigned char *'s instead of char *'s? I always have to cast my calls to these functions because Hijack expects the buffer to be an unsigned character * and vfdlib has always wanted them to be char *'s. And I think it was inconsistent where the drawText function used to actually take an unsigned char buffer while the drawLine and others took a char *. Makes it a little tough to write code. I think since the buffers are eventually going to be written to the screen with Hijack API's, vfdlib should change to use the same type that Hijack expects to avoid casting all the time.

Agreed?

"A" maintainer, not "the".

Probably, but I have to look at the code, I seem to have deleted the copy on my laptop, and the network here sucks now (was at LISA '03 but it's over and they took down the conference net.)