Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Boldify deref's a NULL ptr and do we need bold fonts?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:03:18 -0700
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:18:00AM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> In anycase, since we seem not to need bold fonts any more, is there any
> need for the check for bold fonts?

We don't need bold fonts, but users may still prefer boldface rather
than inverse-video as the indication of the bytes that are part of the
currently selected field.

Either boldface or inverse-video is OK with me, so I wouldn't personally
mind if we eliminated support for boldfacing - it would simplify the
code - but I can't speak for other users.

We should, however, consider changing the setting to inverse-video if
the users selects a font without a matching boldface font, rather than
rejecting the user's choice.  (Perhaps we should pop up a warning dialog
box if we're doing so, letting the user click "OK" to accept that and
"Cancel" to reject that and choose a different font.)