kit@sunrise.oulu.fi (Ilpo Tapio Karjalainen) (05/31/91)
Does anyone know how to tell to CreateFont() to get one exact font?
I am having problems in specifying to Windows that I request for one exact font
that I have installed in Control panel. Now my system has some extra Courier
fonts (Courier-Bold, Courier-Medium) installed from a archived font set that is
available from the net (fonts.lzh in FUNIC.FUNET.FI at least). Fonts are
described in WIN.INI as:
[fonts]
Courier-Bold=COB_____.FON
Courier-Medium=COM_____.FON
and in Control panel's samplebox there reads:
Courier 8 ABCDEFG...
Courier 10 ABCDEFG...
Courier 12 ABCDEFG...
.
.
Courier 24 ABCDEFG...
Now, I added line ' FONT 8, "Courier" ' into my applications .RC file to the
header of one dialog and I got a Courier-Bold 8 font (bold presumerably because
Courier-Bold was first 8 point Courier font in Control panel's listbox).
Now this works just fine, but I would like to create this font by using
CreateFont(). I just cannot figure out where could I gather required parameters
for CreateFont(). This created font would then be used with WM_SETFONT-message
to change fonts for some parts of the dialog only.
I passed the following set to CreateFont and got just plain Courier 10 :
hFont=CreateFont(8, /* height (the number 8 in Control Panel' listbox means
height, eh?) */
0, /* width (I set this to zero so that Windows can match it
to proper aspect ratio) */
0, /* escapement */
0, /* orientation */
FW_NORMAL, /* weight */
FALSE, /* italic */
FALSE, /* underline */
FALSE, /* strikeout */
ANSI_CHARSET, /* charset (I need ANSI set) */
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, /* out precision */
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, /* clip precision */
PROOF_QUALITY, /* quality (should it be DRAFT or DEFAULT so
that height would become more important?) */
FIXED_PITCH | FF_MODERN, /* pitch and family */
"Courier"); /* typeface (again, what should read here, is
Courier-Medium considered to be a typeface of
its own or does it belong to Courier?) */
Now, where did I go wrong? Why did Windows select 10 point font instead of
requested 8? These fonts that can be seen in Sample of Font listbox should be
available for applications, shouldn`t them?
If you do have some experience in using add-on fonts, please let me know the
trick! Thanks in advance,
-Ilpo
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Ilpo Karjalainen - Dept. of Information processing science, Oulu University
kit@sunrise.oulu.fi, kit@tolsun.oulu.fi, tel. +358-81-563 241 (voice)