Preparing for DBCS output

In order to make your application programs independent of user's hardware and software for output, you need to consider the following points :

• Fonts available to your application programs

  See Finding available fonts on DBCS OS/2

• Independence on display device

  • Window coordinates with window templates

    See Calculating the window coordinate

  • Dialog coordinates with dialog templates

    See Fitting your dialog windows into PM screen.

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  Multiple printer data-streams or PM print function

  See Preparing a table for PS/55 DBCS printers.

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