[futurebasic] Re: One for the thinkers...

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From: David Blache <alterego@...>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 00:25:34 -0600
On 10/4/98 9:22 PM, mel@... wrote:

>I'd like to be able to display a SINGLE letter in a window, and then
>somehow trace the outside of that letter and find all the X/Y points that
>make up the path around the outside of the letter. Block letters would be
>easy, those curvy script fonts would be tough.

Record the character into a region.  Then duplicate the region, expand 
the copy region by 1 pixel, and XOR them.

;-)

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